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Secretary of State Diego Morales, left, at the 2025 National Election Conference in June 2025. After taking heat for back-to-back international trips, other Republicans are lining up to challenge the incumbent in 2026.

After taking heat for back-to-back international trips, other Republicans are lining up to challenge the incumbent in 2026.

generic Indiana Sheriff vehicle

A man died in the hospital following a low-speed chase in Clay County.

Cummins sign.

The Diesel Workers Union was overseeing a strike authorization vote Friday at its union hall in Columbus. It started early Thursday and ends Friday at 7 p.m. The union's members rejected a contract last month.

Greg Guerrettaz, financial advisor for Monroe County, addresses jail costs at the June 6th, 2025, meeting of the Long-Term Finance Committee.

Construction of the new Monroe County Jail may be delayed due to a new financing limit set by Senate Bill 1.

two children play with a carpenter's toy playset

Advocates say cuts to enrollment reverse years of growth in the state preschool program.

Grillo's Pickles billboard

Grillo’s Pickles said it expects to employ about 150 workers at the new plant just south of Edinburgh, Ind. near I-65. 

IU campus

On this week's Noon Edition, we will discuss moves by the state and federal governments to regulate higher education institutions and their responses – and lack of – to it.

Parade participants hold a large rainbow Pride flag as they wait for the parade to begin.

The annual Southern Indiana Pride festival returns Saturday to downtown Jeffersonville.

Windows and doors on the Manchester Apartment complex were boarded up days after the building caught fire in October 2024

The property is partially opening up to 23 veterans experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis.

Comptroller Elise Nieshalla testifies before the Senate Elections Committee on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025.

Indiana, alongside 20 other states, penned a letter last month urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate delisting China-based companies on U.S. stock exchanges “to protect American investors.”

An empty school hallway is lined by lockers. A digital clock at the top of the hallway reads the time and date. The fluorescent lights running down the hallway reflect off the linoleum flooring.

One of the biggest differences between traditional public schools, charter schools and private schools is accountability.

Earl Harris, Jr. is a Black man with black hair and goatee. He is wearing a black suit coat over a white shirt.

The Indiana Black Legislative Caucus will hold a series of town halls around the state over the next four months. The first will be held this Saturday in Indianapolis.

Test score sheet with answers, grade A+ and pencil, close up

Indiana has not issued A-to-F accountability grades to schools since 2018.

Camp Atterbury

After a report that federal officials may consider using Camp Atterbury as an immigration detention center, Indiana Congressman André Carson is raising a red flag.

Percy Clark helped run Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy, two online schools that closed abruptly in 2019 after allegations that they inflated enrollment.

An Indiana University Health paramedic walks beside a LifeLine ambulance. Cody Halstead, a current paramedic with IU Health, has sued the company, alleging discrimination in a federal lawsuit.

Cody Halstead, a current paramedic with IU Health, has sued the company, alleging discrimination in a federal lawsuit.

Stories and artifacts in the "Museum of Fabulosity" is seen June 4, 2025 at the Guichelaar Gallery, Tube Factory Artspace in Indianapolis.

The “Museum of Fabulosity” will be open from June 6 to July 20.

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Terre Haute, IN - Sept. 30, 2023: Indiana State University electronic sign near the Hullman Center

Cuts include the vice president for student affairs, the executive director of diversity, inclusion, and belonging, and the university communication director.

From left: Sam Kaluzny, MAC Construction; Nathan Frey, Clark Dietz; Jack Kaufman, Southern Indiana Trailways; Drew Wright, Southern Indiana Trailways; Jeff Quyle, Radius; Congresswoman Erin Houchin; Salem Mayor Justin Greene; DNR’s Dale Brier.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources and Radius Indiana celebrated the opening of the next section of the Monon South Trail in the town of Salem.

Concrete sign displaying the words "City Hall" outside of Bloomington's city hall and government center.

Over half-a-million dollars’ worth of grant money has been approved for social service programs throughout Bloomington and Monroe County.

Judge gavel on a wooden desk, law books background

A Seymour attorney was arrested Tuesday and faces charges related to not paying his taxes for five years.

preschool camp

The Tri-Share Plus initiative aims to help employers in 11 counties retain employees and relieve financial stress for families.

Former Indiana State Parks director and DNR director Dan Bortner.

Dan Bortner served as Indiana State Parks director for 15 years until former Gov. Eric Holcomb tapped him to lead the DNR in 2020.

McDoel Gardens mural design

The street mural will include blue flag iris, coreopsis and coneflower. Sidewalk stencil designs will include peony, iris and clover. 

Kurt Vonnegut Altar by Keith L Andrews

Granfalloon ends this weekend with a free downtown concert and final events celebrating literature, music and art inspired by Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.

The Mooresville’s Gray Brothers Cafeteria is closing after Sunday.

The Gray Brothers Cafeteria hopes to find a new location in the next couple of months.

Farmer sentiment hit its most positive level since May of 2021.

Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials plan to use to restart executions for the first time in more than a decade.

Indiana went 15 years without executing someone on death row before executing two men in the last six months.

Mitch Roob, secretary of the Family and Social Services Administration, speaks into a microphone while wearing a "Make Medicaid Boring Again" hat.

The new funding structure makes some adjustments to a tax that already exists on hospitals. The main change comes from a new tax on insurance companies or managed care organizations.

For sale signs housing

It's hard to develop a variety of housing options due to land scarcity, zoning and planning restrictions, and high material and labor costs.

Pat shows her stain glass art of a cat sleeping on books. Her hand touches the edge of a silpat at a workstation next to a window. It's crowded with materials and a pill bottle at the edge of the window pane.

Medicaid members in Indiana are stuck between state and federal policies that threaten their health coverage.

Columbus Mayor Mary Ferdon

Ferdon said this won't be a year for a whole lot of new projects due to state budget cuts. She said the city is in a wait and see attitude right now.

Columbus Mayor Mary Ferdon

PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger warned that Trump's proposal would devastate public broadcasting stations, particularly in rural communities.

Shovels and a dirt box prepared for Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony for the convention center expansion.

Shovels hit the dirt Tuesday afternoon, putting in motion the long-awaited construction of the 61,000-square foot addition to the Bloomington Convention Center.

The Bloomington Police Department sworn in 11 new officers.

The group will lessen the officer shortage.

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