Indiana has more damage from excess moisture than any other agricultural state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Purdue University estimates losses to the state’s corn and soybean crops at $300 million and $200 million, respectively.
The company plans to invest $7.7 million in its Greenfield factory, which will lift production to an estimated 1.2 million power tools annually.
Buyers signed deals for 1,702 homes in January, a 4.7-percent gain over the same month last year. Average home prices and the inventory of listed homes each inched up about 1 percent.
Anderson-based Flagship Enterprise Center, which makes business loans at levels far below most banks, recently earned approval to operate in 24 counties, up from 10.
Municipal-owned utilities are trying to fend off an attack on a state law that allows them to expand their territories through annexation. Rural electric cooperatives and investor-owned utilities say they’re losing big customers.
EnerDel Inc. is regrouping under a strategy of targeting niche markets, as Indianapolis and Hancock County officials press executives about the firm’s future and former pledges of local investment and job creation that failed to pan out.
Covance manages clinical trials for drugmakers including locally-based Eli Lilly and Co. It employs about 1,500 workers in Indianapolis and Greenfield.
Austin Alcala, 18, of McCordsville is one of several gaming enthusiasts accused of hacking into a U.S. Army computer network while targeting Microsoft and several video game developers.
Town officials are eyeing a $1 million project to turn the former Schreiber Lumber pavilion near Carroll Road into a trailhead to host farmers markets, festivals, fundraisers and more.
The Kaiden, a 13-unit hotel just off the National Road between Indianapolis and Greenfield, has been reborn as an apartment building called The Village.
Red Ribbon Antiques, which opened its doors on Main Street in 1989, will open them one final time Sept. 6 to liquidate the inventory Gloria Holloway established over her 25-year business career.
In drunken-driving cases, the same tests prosecutors say have become necessary to successfully convict are also draining an important county budget.
Home-sale agreements tumbled 14.9 percent in the nine-county Indianapolis area in June, the tenth straight month deals have decreased, according to F.C. Tucker Co.
Wall Street analysts raised their eyebrows at the hefty price Eli Lilly and Co. will pay to acquire Novartis Animal Health, when compared to the value of the biggest player in the field.
PlaqueMaker.com plans to invest as much as $3 million to expand its Fortville operations, building and equipping a 42,000-square-foot facility and nearly doubling its staff by the end of 2018.
Officials in six central Indiana counties have the go-ahead to seek voter permission to fund a regional bus system.
Pending home sales in the nine-county area slid 22.8 percent in February compared with the year-ago period. That was only a slight improvement from the 31-percent fall recorded in January.
Greenfield Mayor Dick Pasco, who had been suffering liver problems since soon before his 2011 election, had decided against further treatment, his family said.
The local developer’s purchase of the complex is part of a shift within the company to complement its traditional development business with acquired properties.
Rick Peters, founder of Carmel-based Ultra Athlete LLC—a small manufacturing firm with a reputation for state-of-the-art ankle braces—sent his latest brace to the Denver Broncos head trainer on a whim, and saw Manning wearing it three days later.