Indiana News

Crews are installing crossing arms and flashing red lights at three rural railroad crossings in southern Indiana following a woman's plea for safety work at the site where her great-grandson was killed last year.

Elkhart - State inspectors are citing a northern Indiana lumber recycling plant with safety violations in the death of a worker.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Commission for Higher Education has recommended tuition and fee rate increases of no higher than 5 percent for the state's seven public college and university systems.

The special session of the Indiana General Assembly is over, but it's not too early to think about next year.

Indiana lawmakers worried about distractions during the special budget session kept gambling issues from creeping into negotiations.

Indiana's attorney general said Thursday that he would appeal a federal judge's order throwing out the guilty verdicts and death sentence of a southern Indiana man convicted of the fatal ambush of three people along a rural Warrick County road.

A central Indiana software company has laid off 35 employees just months after cutting about 125 jobs.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Indiana's 2008 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, who is charged with misrepresenting himself as a state legislator to avoid arrest for public intoxication.

Indiana's lawmakers passed a $27.8 billion two-year budget Tuesday that supporters touted as a triumph in a recession but critics said came at the expense of students in urban and rural districts.

Gov. Mitch Daniels today said most areas of state government not essential to public safety will shut down if lawmakers fail to pass a budget by their midnight Tuesday deadline.

A day after Indiana's lawmakers passed a new two-year state budget, Gov. Mitch Daniels was already looking ahead to his next legislative goal: reforming local government, including a push to merge the state's smallest school districts.

A burst water main caused some downtown Kokomo streets to be blocked off and numerous businesses and offices to be warned about the safety of their drinking water.

An analysis by Indiana University's Indiana Business Research Center found that Fishers has gained the most residents since 2000.

As Governor Daniels stated in his e-mail, if the General Assembly fails to enact a budget by midnight, most of state government will have to be shut down.

The Indiana Economic Development Corp. is collaborating with Indiana and Purdue universities and Ivy Tech Community College in the Southeast Indiana Small Business Development Center.

"Public Enemies," a feature film dramatizing the life and times of John Dillinger and his infamous gang of robbers, officially hit theaters just after midnight.

The Indiana General Assembly passed a two-year state budget on Tuesday, narrowly averting a large-scale state government shutdown that would have begun just after midnight.

Indiana State Health Officials warn Hoosiers that elevated lead levels have been found in products sold at Target stores.

Indiana's state agencies are preparing for a government shutdown even though officials hope lawmakers will pass a new budget by midnight today when the current budget expires.

Chesterton - Sand castle architects may showcase their talents July 11 at a sand sculpture contest at Indiana Dunes State Park.