While Indiana legislative leaders haven’t yet detailed their education priorities for 2026, they have a list of unfinished business to tackle when it comes to schools.
Votes in the Senate and House on Tuesday set Jan. 5 as the date lawmakers will start the new legislative session—not Dec. 1, as previously planned, to discuss redrawing congressional maps.
One developer blamed opaque processes and bad information for fostering massive backlash among residents.
The approach is devoid of reason or fair play: “They cheated, so we have to cheat.”
The IURC has a five-member board that hears cases on a variety of issues, including utility construction projects, rate hikes, financing and environmental compliance.
Indianapolis-based MDwise, which said it has provided Indiana Medicaid services for more than 30 years, has already launched a court challenge to the state’s action.
Diminished budgets, staffing reductions and postponed projects were the focus Wednesday as more than a dozen Hoosier mayors and town managers gathered to discuss the effects of Indiana’s new property tax system.
Gov. Mike Braun’s office said Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits for November should be available on EBT, or Electronic Benefits Transfer, cards on Tuesday.
The exploding number of cannabis retailers in Michigan has been especially concentrated in the mostly small, rural border towns where they draw sometimes hundreds of customers a day from states where the drug remains illegal.
The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic U.S. government shutdown.
In response to Attorney General Todd Rokita’s social media posts, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett told The Indiana Lawyer that he discourages any request for a National Guard intervention.
Advocates for transgender Hoosiers spoke in opposition to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles regulation revision to prohibit gender marker changes that have been allowed since 2009.
The affected Indiana Department of Health workers will not be eligible for back pay, which federal employees have typically received following furloughs during previous government shutdowns.
The lawsuit alleges Indianapolis Public Schools maintains policies that violate Indiana’s anti-sanctuary statute.
This is the first school year students were held back under the 2024 law that mandates retention for students who don’t pass the state’s reading test, the IREAD-3.
The decision came as communities in four other Indiana districts also approved school tax questions in special elections.
Mike Karickhoff is the first high-ranking member of the Legislature to make such a decision ahead of the 2026 elections.
The Indiana Public Retirement System is divesting from holdings worth almost $170 million more than two years after lawmakers banned investments in Chinese interests.
Lawmakers and advocates called mid-decade redistricting a moral and civil rights issue.
House Speaker Todd Huston and Senate President Pro Tem Roderic Bray announced Monday that rather than hold a special session, the Indiana Legislature will convene for an early start to its regular session.
