Election night updates—mayoral races, council races, referendums and more
Polls have officially closed in Marion County, where voters are deciding a mayoral race and all 25 seats on the Indianapolis City-County Council.
Polls have officially closed in Marion County, where voters are deciding a mayoral race and all 25 seats on the Indianapolis City-County Council.
Voters across Indiana, weighing school referendum requests from 10 districts in Tuesday’s elections, approved seven measures and turned down six others.
The hospital system’s 45-year-old campus will likely need hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades in coming years to keep it competitive long term.
So far for the 2019 election, 6,158 voters have cast ballots in person, which is higher than how many people voted early in person at the same point in 2015 and 2011.
Old Town’s sister companies are continuing to develop projects in Carmel, working on a large mixed-use development that will help transform downtown Westfield, and expanding their reach into West Lafayette, where the company is part of a $1 billion project being constructed next to Purdue University’s campus.
Here’s a roundup of all of the state school districts that will put a tax increase on the ballot in November, including a couple of school districts with both construction and operational referendums.
Les Zwirn has located a couple of foundations willing to fund efforts to increase political literacy but only when it’s disconnected from electoral politics. He calls that ironic.
The Carmel City Council on Monday night unanimously approved a resolution to increase the county’s income tax by 10 percent to pay for 911 operations, joining Fishers, Westfield and Noblesville in supporting the tax hike.
Residents in Marion County will be determining the next mayor of Indianapolis and 25 City-County Council races. Several races in Hamilton County are also contested.
Cleveland-based Everstream Solutions LLC announced Tuesday that it has agreed to buy a 200-plus-mile Indianapolis-based fiber network from Dallas-based DataBank Ltd. and quadruple the network’s size. The service area will expand to cover Indianapolis and parts of Hamilton County.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Owens, the 34-year-old CEO of tech firm SupplyKick, has never held elected office. But he doesn’t consider that a bad thing.
Indianapolis-based developer Kite Realty Group Trust is asking the cities of Carmel and Indianapolis to ante up incentives for a trio of mixed-use projects in its pipeline.
This Westfield photo was on a postcard mailed Aug. 24, 1911. At the time, the community was already more than 75 years old. It was settled in 1832 by Quakers who left North Carolina to protest slavery and established a stop on the Underground Railroad. They initially called the town—which was laid out with 48 […]
What will be the chatter be in the Indy arts community this fall? These are just some of the topics you are likely to overhear.
Welcome to the 2019/2020 central Indiana arts season. I say that assuming you are an audience member and not one of the thousands of local arts professionals and talented non-pros. Many of those folks have already been hard at work creating and curating what you’ll see on stages and in galleries and experience elsewhere over the coming months.
In the wake of the May closure of The Hendricks County Flyer, Grow Local Media is expanding its own Hendricks County paper.
Indiana has one of the highest smoking rates in the country—nearly one in five Hoosiers smoke. Now, a new statewide policy makes it easier for smokers to get medication to help them quit. But some people want state leaders to do more.
The Chicago-based chain is the latest in a rush of similar announcements. Also this week: Beauty Brands, Normal Coffee, Got Sole? Boutique and more.
Recently, 12,000 people signed a petition requesting that the Nickel Plate Railroad in Hamilton County and Indianapolis be kept intact for future transit use. Many are also fans of bike/hike trails. Until now, their signatures have been ignored by some local political leaders.
But first—Chris Jensen said—the city needs to take steps that will help guide and keep a handle on the coming influx of residents and businesses.