The Mid-States Corridor is a proposed 50-mile highway roughly following U.S. 231 with cost estimates near $1 billion, built for the express purpose of boosting economic activity in Southern Indiana. Residents are concerned about the lack of representation on the board overseeing a new funding mechanism.
The Indiana Senate killed controversial House Bill 1134 Monday night after several hours of closed-door discussions in the Republican caucus.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box said Indiana will correct an error and adjust how it calculates its COVID-19 positivity rate for counties.
While data that reflects the correction and the state’s new methodology will not be published until Dec. 30, Box anticipated the changes will affect both the state’s overall positivity rate and the metrics for individual counties.
The fall marching band season will be canceled, according to the Indiana State School Music Association. ISSMA alerted schools on Wednesday that the organization’s competition season — which includes regional, semistate and state finals events — would be canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
While Hoosiers will be able to do more when Indiana moves into Stage 4 of its reopening on Friday, the state will not be completely reopened.
More than 70 local businesses and environmental organizations are imploring the Indiana Department of Transportation to stop planning a proposed highway project through the southern part of the state, claiming it’s not needed, that it could threaten rare habitat and that resources could be better spent aiding with the COVID-19 pandemic.
When writer Norbert Krapf returned to his home state of Indiana after spending more than 30 years in Long Island, he finally felt ready to confront the abuse he experienced from his church’s priest as a young boy in Jasper.
The Midwest’s knickknacks, food and summer heat made an impression on Penny Marshall.
NOBLESVILLE – They weren’t going to play the baseball games. Not here in Noblesville. Not three days after … that.
The three Republicans running for U.S. Senate in Indiana faced off Sunday night in the second debate of what has been called the nastiest GOP primary race in the nation, but this time most of the attacks were aimed at former state Rep. Mike Braun — an indication of his rising status in the race.
