Indiana Government News

Indiana's public universities are missing a golden opportunity to help Hoosier students.

Indiana House Speaker Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, responds to a question during a news conference at the Statehouse in Indianapolis on July 1. Now that the dust has started to settle from the recent special session of the Indiana General Assembly, people are starting to understand the reality of the new biennial state budget and the effect it will ...

Motorists who renew their Indiana driver's licenses or obtain new ones will have to present documents to prove their identities beginning next year.

Nearly two years into the privatization of Indiana's welfare system, state officials are considering scrapping it amid widespread concerns that include the mishandling of nearly one in five food-stamp cases.

A top Indiana official says the state's privately run welfare project has so many problems that Indiana could begin taking steps to cancel its $1.16 billion contract this fall.

Surveying the fiscal debris field following the end of the Indiana legislature's special session, Indiana research advocates console themselves with the fact that it could've been much worse.

On Wednesday, July 1, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission will implement changes dealing specifically with communications services in Indiana mandated by Public Law 27-2006 or House Enrolled Act 1279.

After days of closed-door meetings, leaders said they have whittled down their differences and reached a final draft.

Most highway construction and maintenance projects across Indiana are being suspended over the July 4 holiday weekend.

The Indiana General Assembly passed a $27.8 billion, two-year budget Tuesday night, with the support of both Republicans and Democrats, putting an end to the special session.

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

Governor Mitch Daniels said the special legislative session, called to pass a budget bill for the state, was a benefit to Indiana taxpayers.

Herbert L. Corn, the former superintendent of the city of Rochester Wastewater Treatment Plant in Rochester, Ind., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in South Bend, Ind., to falsifying monthly discharge monitoring reports that concealed violations of the Clean Water Act at the Rochester plant, the Justice Department announced.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says taxpayers came out ahead in the special legislative session that ended Tuesday.

More than 180,000 Hoosiers won't be allowed to use their cell phones while driving Wednesday according to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

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.

Gov. Mitch Daniels sent this to state employees early Tuesday afternoon: Dear Co-Worker: I apologize that I am only just now communicating with you, but I have held off at the request of state legislators who are working to reach a budget compromise before the fiscal year ends tonight.

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.

OKLAHOMA CITY Truck driver Donald Creed had a clean record when the state of Missouri renewed his commercial driver's license in April.

Indiana prisons report increasing overcrowding. There are just 26 beds available now for the state's worst offenders.