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Flood-damaged Indianapolis homeowners face costly choice

October 30, 2026

Months after devastating August floods, some homeowners face a costly choice: Spend thousands of dollars to elevate their homes or tear them down.

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The White River could transform downtown Indy. Decades of plans have yet to make it happen.

September 28, 2026

Daniel Bradley

City leaders and stakeholders have held discussions about the riverfront in recent years and even traveled to other cities and countries to learn how they’ve developed their riverfronts, but plans for Indianapolis have repeatedly fallen by the wayside.

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Uncertainty over how to enact, afford safeguards clouds path forward for Rocky Ripple

August 28, 2026 | Taylor Wooten

Rocky Ripple officials say this month’s flooding made it clear just how critical it is that the small town just northwest of Butler University replace its earthen levee with stronger flood protection.

Storms, days of heavy rain upend businesses, nonprofits statewide

August 21, 2026

Cleanup has only just begun for the thousands of Hoosier residents and businesses affected by widespread power outages and flooding.

Historic flooding tests Hamilton County’s emergency response

August 21, 2026 |

Mickey Shuey

The flooding, which surpassed records set in 1913, swamped multiple economically depressed portions of Noblesville and the county’s unincorporated areas.

Is more federal aid coming after floods? Maybe.

August 21, 2026 | Joey Harris

Gov. Mike Braun was expected this week to request a major disaster declaration from President Donald Trump, but it could take weeks or months for that to be approved.

New White River bridge named Greenlawn Memorial in tribute to early cemetery

July 22, 2026 | Taylor Wooten

The Indianapolis Board of Public Works voted unanimously on the name Wednesday afternoon.

Bezos-backed foundation grants $10M to transform riverfront park in Indianapolis

July 7, 2026 |

Lesley Weidenbener

The project will add two miles of new trails, plant 400 trees and restore wetlands as part of a larger effort to reinvest along the White River.

White River State Park reveals plans for $65M expansion on stamping plant site

October 25, 2024 |

Mickey Shuey

The park will expand into 15 acres between the White River and Elanco Animal Health’s new headquarters and will include an event pavilion to be developed inside the remnants of a former crane bay that had been part of the original stamping plant.

Local leaders tour Singapore for White River inspiration

January 19, 2024 |

Mickey Shuey

A 26-person contingent comprising state and city officials, not-for-profit leaders and business executives traveled to the tiny city-state Nov. 14-17 to study how the nation has developed land along its waterfront.

City ramps up climate staff amid weather concerns

December 15, 2023 | Taylor Wooten

Indianapolis officials say they are preparing for more severe weather in the years to come as climate-change events threaten to overwhelm the stormwater drainage system and pose other problems.

Boone County is ‘favored site’ of companies looking at Indiana, IEDC says

August 10, 2023 | Peter Blanchard

The IEDC has acquired thousands of acres of land in Boone County for the LEAP District, a planned advanced manufacturing and high-tech district in the Lebanon area.

Haughville pursuing vision to make Belmont Beach permanent park

June 9, 2023 | Taylor Wooten

Community leaders and volunteers are working to turn a site that was once a swimming hole on the White River for Black Indianapolis residents into a year-round destination.

City, historians at odds over how to approach possible Black grave sites at bridge project

May 9, 2023 | Taylor Wooten

The Indianapolis Department of Public Works says work on the bridge will halt if remains are found during construction, and it plans to have an archaeologist on site during construction who would flag signs of burial. But critics are seeking an archeological dig first.

State letting AES Indiana discharge toxic water into White River, group says

April 19, 2023 |

John Russell

An Indiana environmental group says the utility is pumping more than 1 million gallons of contaminated water a day into the river from coal ash ponds at its Eagle Valley Generating Station in violation of the federal Clean Water Act.

Carmel set to expand White River Greenway

January 13, 2023 | Daniel Bradley

The trail will wind and curve near the White River for 5.4 miles from East 116th Street to East 146th Street once it is completed next year.

White River group pushes ahead with public access plans, fundraising

March 31, 2022 |

Leslie Bonilla Muñiz

The group is launching an annual fundraising campaign to help pay for gravel parking lots, access roads, signage, security lighting and cameras, and boat ramps for areas along the White River in Hamilton, Marion and Morgan counties.

Groups seek to beautify sites so no one will trash them

December 24, 2021 |

Leslie Bonilla Muñiz

Several Indianapolis-based groups are hoping to turn a spot on the White River into an outdoor recreational hub that includes a boat ramp, a parking lot and a smattering of event spaces.

Communities along White River form coalition to leverage new statewide grant funding

June 15, 2021 | Kurt Christian

Government leaders in Anderson, Carmel, Fishers, Indianapolis, Noblesville, Westfield, and Hamilton and Madison counties, have joined together to secure funding for redevelopment and economic investment projects along the White River.

White River could become a national-park-like amenity

April 9, 2021 |

Lindsey Erdody

Improving a 58-mile stretch of the White River and taking advantage of the natural resource that flows through the Indianapolis area has been on local leaders’ wish list for years.

Plans forming for public-private river education center at Conner Prairie

February 17, 2020 | Kurt Christian

Visit Hamilton County launched a feasibility study Thursday to determine the best way to align the county’s River Road Park, Carmel’s River Heritage Park and Conner Prairie as a river-centric district.

White River plan envisions ideas for more accessibility in Hamilton, Marion counties

February 7, 2019

A firm charged with drafting a plan to revitalize and activate the river in the two counties has unveiled a series of concepts that include both passive and active nature experiences.

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