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A group of armed protesters peacefully marched in downtown Indianapolis Saturday to protest what they call an attack on Second Amendment rights from the Trump administration. State lawmakers may stop the practice of limiting the number of rental houses in a neighborhood. Advocates are urging lawmakers not to support a bill criminalizing Homelessness. Hoosiers could vote this year on whether to all...

The proposed data center in Martindale-Brightwood has cleared another hurdle, despite significant community pushback. Purdue Polytechnic High School announced its South Bend campus will close at the end of the current school year. A plan to pipe Eagle Creek water to the LEAP Research and Innovation district in Boone County, then return it to Indianapolis, is receiving pushback. Indiana students co...

Construction on a new 10 billion dollar data center for Facebook parent company Meta is underway in Indiana. Construction on a new 10 billion dollar data center for Facebook parent company Meta is underway in Indiana. Indiana lawmakers made additional adjustments to a broad immigration enforcement bill Tuesday afternoon. A revised bill targeting youth gun violence is moving forward after lawmakers...

Indiana lawmakers are reviving legislation that would restrict social media use for children, this time with an emphasis on parental controls and forcing social media platforms to be less addictive. Indiana residents will no longer be able to change their gender marker on driver’s licenses. An Indiana House committee moved a bill forward Tuesday to extend syringe services programs. Members of the...

The recent disappearance and death of Fishers teen Hailey Buzbee has prompted Indiana lawmakers to amend legislation. State lawmakers, businesses and community advocates came together last week to discuss issues affecting the more than six-hundred thousand Latinos in the state. Court officials, including judges, could receive added layers of security. Nick McKinley will fill former Senator Andy Za...

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department is conducting an internal review after a viral video showed an officer threatening a teenage driver during a Friday traffic stop. Mennonite congregations are calling on Target to take a stronger stand against federal immigration enforcement actions. Controversial language in a bill aimed at making it easier to build data centers and other large proje...

After the recent disappearance and death of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee from Fishers, state lawmakers said they are considering creating a new alert system for missing children. Indiana leaders will give “extra” scrutiny to Medicaid and other federally funded, state-administered social services programs as part of a new entity focused on fraud, waste and abuse. Noblesville Schools says it’s facing a...

Former Indiana congressman Lee Hamilton has died at age 94, the 34-year representative was a leader in U.S. foreign policy. Doxing is posting someone’s personally-identifying information online with a harmful intent. The Marion County public defender's office says it needs help filling vacancies that have been left open for months. In Indiana, the youth vote is falling behind the national average....

Students at multiple Central Indiana high schools walked out of class this week to protest federal immigration enforcement. Indiana lawmakers overhauled an immigration bill to align with the Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement policies. Doctors would need to get patient consent for invasive examinations performed on unconscious patients under proposed legislation. An annual census of pe...

Students around Indianapolis walked out of their schools Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement. Residents of the historically Black Indianapolis neighborhood of Martindale-Brightwood are opposing a data center development there. Added support for people with medical debt could come through a measure at the statehouse. And our final story today is a conversation with a long time Indiana...

A vigil last Friday on the east side of Indianapolis remembered those lost under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Several protests against ICE and immigration enforcement were organized over the weekend in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis-based media company Audiochuck this week announced they're giving significant financial support to local LGBTQ+ youth. For a second year in a row,...

A bill would allow Indiana National Guard military police to make arrests and conduct searches when activated by the governor. The Indiana Hospital Association released a new report on Tuesday, warning that many of the state’s hospitals are financially vulnerable. A bill authorizing the Indiana death penalty to be carried out by a firing squad failed to pass out of the House. A state Senate bill a...

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has its new chief of police, and the appointment makes history for the city. Ryan Mears has taken himself off the short list of potential successors to Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett — at least for now. Some non-US citizens and foreign businesses could face restrictions to landownership and higher education with a proposed bill at the Statehouse. Ind...

A bill that would have required Indiana schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms is gaining traction, but not before being changed drastically. A bill that would have required Indiana schools to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms is gaining traction, but not before being changed drastically. A State House bill would eliminate the Indiana Natural Resources Commission and a few other...

Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush appointed a special judge after Tippecanoe County Judge Steven Meyer and his wife were both wounded by a shooter at their home in Lafayette. Parts of Indianapolis saw over eleven inches of snow over the weekend but Senators still gathered Monday afternoon at the statehouse. A bill that would ban children under a certain age from owning or using soci...

Marion County travel warning urges all residents to avoid all non-emergency travel. The state is considering adding more options to execute people on death row. A bill that includes language that emphasizes teaching students the importance of waiting until marriage before having kids passed its first legislative hurdle last week. A House committee chair says a bill that would give Hoosier Lottery...

The Lafayette Police Department announced Thursday night that five people were arrested in connection to the shooting of a Tippecanoe County judge and his wife. The FBI is now investigating the death of former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. An anti-abortion group is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to step into a fight over abortion records. Lawmakers approved a bill tightening enforcement ar...

A Tippecanoe County judge and his wife continue to recover after they were shot at their home Sunday afternoon. Legislation moving through the Statehouse would define gender and sex -- and the words male and female — and adds restrictions based on them. Affordability is a major focus for Indiana lawmakers. Indiana lawmakers are backing away from a proposed rollback to a school safety law. A Notre...

The Indiana Hoosiers wrote the final chapter of a remarkable season Monday night, beating Miami, 27 to 21, in the college football championship game. Hundreds of students at Carmel High School walked out Tuesday afternoon as part of a nationwide protest against the Trump Administration. Lawmakers are once again trying to dissolve some township governments in Indiana. Indianapolis Public Schools is...

A manhunt is underway after a Tippecanoe County judge and his wife were found shot at their Lafayette home Sunday afternoon. President Donald Trump targeted Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray on Saturday for last month’s rejected congressional redistricting plan that would have favored the GOP. IU Indianapolis canceled a decades-old tradition celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,...

A decision on the rezoning request to build a controversial data center in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood in Indianapolis has been extended. A handful of affordable housing units have been sold by the Indianapolis Housing Agency and will be under new management. Indiana U.S. Congressman Jim Baird is seeking re-election. A bill that would ban children from having social media accounts in In...

Vop Osili announced today that he is running for Mayor of Indianapolis. Governor Mike Braun gave his second State of the State address on Wednesday night. Indiana U.S. Senator Todd Young was one of two Republicans who tipped the scales to block a war powers resolution that would have required President Trump to secure authorization from Congress before launching any further military operations in...

A bill to deregulate zoning in an effort to reduce the cost of building new homes had its first hearing on Tuesday. How much freedom is too much for a child? That question is central to a bill that aims to limit the state from investigating parents for neglect, simply for letting their kids play outside alone. Legislation that would fundamentally reshape education in Indianapolis was debated durin...

U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz files paperwork for reelection. A new bill in the Indiana statehouse would create more oversight of psychiatric hospitals. Students at Indiana University are speaking out after an annual dinner observing Martin Luther King Jr. day was canceled. Indiana lawmakers moved to ban ranked choice voting in the state during a committee meeting on Monday). A bill that would restric...

Nationwide and in Indiana anti-ICE protests continued this weekend, a call for accountability for Renee Good’s death. Recovering rare earth elements from toxic coal ash could be a win-win for Indiana’s environment and its economy. Indiana is one of two new national drone test sites, as named by President Donald Trump’s administration. A bill that would designate the breaded pork tenderloin as the...