Eric Holcomb told IBJ while he is hopeful Indianapolis will secure a Major League Soccer club—an effort Joe Hogsett announced during a public address on April 25—it will have to do so without having him play facilitator.
The lottery expects to have raked in an eye-popping $1.7 billion in revenue by July, which marks the end of its fiscal year. It will have have paid out $1.1 billion in prize expenses by then, according to preliminary and unaudited data.
Rep. Sharon Negele, R-Attica, said voters didn’t think she’d done enough to ensure local officials could stop projects related to water and solar that they didn’t like.
The Legislative Council, which is made up of eight members from the Indiana Senate and eight members from the Indiana House of Representatives, released topics for interim study on Tuesday.
The Indiana Democratic Party will hold caucuses to fill the office and ballot vacancies once Fleming leaves.
Indiana is one of 18 states that has never had a female governor. But four out of its five past lieutenant governors have been women.
IBJ talked with State Agriculture Director Don Lamb about the trade mission to Brazil, the importance of agriculture trade missions and Indiana’s import/export relationships.
A new Indiana law requiring some teachers to learn about teaching literacy in order to renew their licenses drew hours of criticism from educators at Wednesday’s State Board of Education meeting.
Braun will face Democrat Jennifer McCormick, the former state superintendent of public instruction, and Libertarian Donald Rainwater in November’s general election.
U.S. Rep. Greg Pence’s decision to not seek reelection started a domino effect: State Rep. Mike Speedy decided against running for reelection and four Republicans threw their hats into the ring to take his place.
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s $200 million Link 101 road endeavor isn’t moving forward, at least in its original form, following a gloomy cost-benefit analysis and sustained public pushback.
Indiana’s Republican gubernatorial candidates overwhelmingly promised a renewed focus on coal—and pushback to federal restrictions—in a survey from a fossil fuels-oriented advocacy group.
The attorney general’s office in Indiana said the state was joining a lawsuit to be filed in Tennessee on Tuesday.
Indiana’s strategy for economic development and job creation has emerged as a key issue in the Republican gubernatorial primary—and the future of the state’s still-developing LEAP district in Boone County could be at stake in the outcome.
Two open Indiana House district seats in the northern suburbs feature contested Republican primary elections.
Some of Doden’s plans include a call for all agency heads to “re-apply” for their jobs under his administration as well as a “Teacher Investment Program,” that would freeze income taxes for teachers and more.
Rep. Jeff Thompson, the chair of the House’s fiscal-minded Ways and Means Committee, says his goal is simplicity but that the changes he has in mind are so massive that they could take multiple sessions.
Most incumbents face no primary competition, but eight open seats have drawn two dozen hopefuls.
Gubernatorial competitor Brad Chambers criticized Crouch’s announcement and called her tax pledge “an out and out lie.”
The 13-member caucus billed the six events as opportunities for Hoosiers to learn more about legislation passed in the most recent session and to “provide feedback and input” ahead of next year’s budget-writing session.
