The state's delegation to Capitol Hill will be its least experienced in many years, although those new members can bring new energy to Washington, D.C., a former longtime Indiana congressman said.
An INDOT spokesman said the state sometimes has to shell out more than the appraised value to encourage land owners to sell.
Joe Donnelly did everything he could to wrap himself in the image of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar while painting Richard Mourdock as a tea party extremist.
New districts must be drawn up for council members, which gives Democrats a glimmer of hope that they might get a voice at the table.
Key Indiana legislators from both parties are looking at decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Greenfield officials are proposing new measures to relax the city’s strict sign standards in an effort to be more friendly to businesses.
The top state budget official under Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has decided to move into an executive position with Indiana University Health when the governor's term ends in January.
House Democrats have chosen a pair of northern Indiana representatives to lead their rebuilding after their poor showing in Tuesday's elections.
Group plans full-time presence at Statehouse to guard against governor, Republican legislature rolling back environmental protections.
Election Day brought 24 new members to the House of Representatives. That huge freshman wave, plus the return of 18 reps who were newly elected in 2010, means 42 percent of the House will begin the 2013 session with two years of experience or less.
The new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the GOP's top lieutenants on the panel will have the task of writing Indiana's next biennial budget during the 2013 session.
Indiana Senate Democrats have elected Tim Lanane to lead their 13-member caucus in General Assembly.
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted as much as 369 points, or 2.8 percent, in the first two hours of trading. It recovered steadily in the afternoon, but slid into the close and ended down 313, its biggest point drop since this time last year.
Republicans held on to their supermajority in the Indiana Senate, maintaining a 37-13 edge after Tuesday's election.
Three new reform-minded IPS board members could help usher in sweeping changes to the school district. At the state level, however, school librarian Glenda Ritz denied Tony Bennett a second term as voters spurned his sweeping education overhaul.
The $1.3 billion transit plan for Hamilton and Marion counties is one of a few lingering issues — along with Sunday alcohol sales and a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage — likely to appear before lawmakers in 2013.
The veteran Republican lawmaker tweeted early Wednesday that the GOP had gained nine seats in the Indiana House, giving the party a two-thirds supermajority of 69 seats.
Republicans will keep control of both houses in the Indiana General Assembly although it wasn’t certain late Tuesday whether they’ll win the supermajority needed to thwart boycott threats from House Democrats.
Voters in the fast-growing suburb north of Indianapolis approved a ballot measure Tuesday that will turn the town of 80,000 residents into a second class city with an elected mayor.
In the shocker of Tuesday night’s election results, teachers unhappy with Republican Tony Bennett’s sweeping education reforms propelled dark-horse Democrat Glenda Ritz into the role of superintendent of public instruction.
