Indiana News

Bird watchers are flocking to a southwestern Indiana wildlife area to try to catch a glimpse of a crane usually spotted only in Asia.

Longtime Republican state Rep. Jeff Espich says he won't seek re-election this year and will end his 40-year career in the Indiana House.

Indiana's new A to F grading rules for schools won formal approval from the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday as well as release from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's most vexing requirements.

A nominating commission Thursday selected seven semifinalists, five of them from Indianapolis, for an upcoming vacancy on the Indiana Supreme Court.

With complex legal issues surrounding the question who will replace Charlie White as Indiana secretary of state, the Indiana Supreme Court rightly stepped into the case late Tuesday afternoon.At issue is the appeal of a Dec.

Democrat John Gregg is officially running for Indiana governor after filing for candidacy Thursday.

Court documents released Wednesday detail a chaotic decision-making process that was controlled largely by country duo Sugarland's representatives as a severe storm approached the Indiana State Fair last August.

Lottery officials say a western Indiana man who threw out a $50,000 lottery ticket he thought was worthless is lucky he hadn't taken out his trash.

Indiana Conservation Officers are investigating the shooting and subsequent death of a bald eagle that was discovered in Morgan County.

The Associated Press has learned that President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law.

The state has transferred ownership of Ernie Pyle's home and an adjacent museum to a nonprofit group that will now operate both for tourists.

The Call 6 Investigators have uncovered a perfect storm brewing in Indiana, where student loan debt is threatening to damage the economy and drown Hoosiers, whether they went to college or not.

Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum filed Wednesday to get on Indiana's primary ballot even though he has not been certified by local election officials.

People crowd the streets through Super Bowl Village on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Indianapolis.

The Indiana attorney general's office is teaming up with the Goodwill Industries to auction off unclaimed property including a football card signed by Gerald Ford and antique tobacco pipes.

At one point, Amtrak trains were ordered to speeds of 25 m.p.h. on parts of the Wolverine line.

The odds of hitting the Hoosier Lotto jackpot are 1 in 12 million -- except, it seems, for much of the past year, when the grand prize winners amounted to zero.

The ground shakes in Indiana more often than you might think. Barely measurable earthquakes -- some not detectable by instruments at all -- happen on a monthly basis in the state, said Michael Hamburger, an Indiana University seismologist.

The leader of the Indiana House Education Committee said today a proposal specifically allowing public schools to teach creationism alongside evolution in science classes could be unworkable.

State education leaders were celebrating the latest statewide graduation rates, which went up 1.6 percent to 85.7 percent for the 2010-2011 school year.