As lawmakers prepare to extend control over two public school districts, some civic leaders are questioning the disparate treatment of Gary, a majority-black district, and Muncie, a predominantly white one.
Indiana lawmakers will be back at the Statehouse on Monday for a special session called to take action on a handful of bills that were left in limbo in March.
Mike Delph’s district includes parts of northwestern Indianapolis, Zionsville and Carmel and is considered a safe Republican seat. Delph will take on Democrat J.D. Ford in the general election.
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State officials said Thursday that they plan to fight Indiana’s opioid crisis by increasing capacity of state-sponsored drug treatment, promoting a campaign on reducing the stigma surrounding drug addiction and treatment, and training more health care workers.
INDOT says it hasn’t chosen a course of action yet, but the study strongly indicates some of the options proposed by opponents of its original plans are not feasible.
The program at Community Hospital East in Indianapolis will have nearly $600,000 state grant money in place to curb the number of female addicts, whose babies often are addicted to drugs.
During their visit to Indianapolis on Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence and the U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta were quick to highlight the Trump administration’s economic agenda—including tax cuts and reductions in red tape—as key reasons for Infosys Ltd.’s decision to invest in the United States.
Delta Air Lines Inc. is in line for up to $5.5 million in state economic development incentives when it launches its nonstop flights between Indianapolis and Paris—but only if it sells enough tickets.
The Indiana Department of Child Services has already gone over its annual budget with two months still remaining in the fiscal year.
A U.S. Army opened the depot in early 1918 to capitalize on the area’s strategic position near military airfields, railroads and industry.
The plaintiffs—Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Indiana—called the measure "a cruel intimidation tactic."
The Health and Human Services funding is among $485 million recently awarded nationwide to combat heroin and opioid abuse.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said he wants lawmakers to focus on passing tax measures, a school safety funding bill and legislation that would help the struggling Muncie schools district.
House Speaker Brian Bosma said he's confident the special session will be short and he is aiming to keep it to one day.
An Indiana lawmaker plans to reintroduce legislation that he says would protect the state's forests after seeing the outcome of a timber cut that removed more than 1,700 trees from a 300-acre state forest site.
Senate candidate Todd Rokita likely violated ethics laws as Indiana’s secretary of state by repeatedly accessing a Republican donor database from his government office, three former GOP officials say.
Sen. Joe Donnelly is doggedly cultivating those who are agitated with Donald Trump as he seeks a second term in a state that the president won by 19 percentage points in 2016.
Members of Trump’s team from 2016 are backing Rokita in Indiana’s GOP Senate primary, claiming fellow Rep. Luke Messer and former state Rep. Mike Braun didn’t do enough to support Trump.
Legislation that would have granted additional alcohol permits to a handful of municipalities and the developer of a big downtown project were sidetracked in the General Assembly.
