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LAGRANGE — Indiana’s economy fared better overall in 2020 than most people expected, Indiana State Senator Sue Glick (R-LaGrange), told a crowd gathered Thursday for lunch at the American Legion

Credit Justin Hicks / IPB News The Indiana Department of Health reported 50 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the state’s total to 12,667 confirmed deaths. The state also reported nearly 6,900 new cases in the last week. Indiana has administered 1,766,467 initial vaccine doses, with 1,241,513 Hoosiers fully vaccinated. Here are your statewide COVID-19 headlines from last week. Gov. Eric Holcomb is still dumping all statewide COVID-19 restrictions April 6, even as his...

Legislature Poised to Order Women’s Suffrage Marker at Statehouse (INDIANAPOLIS) — A marker commemorating the passage of women’s right to vote should soon be added to Indiana’s statehouse lawn. Senators Sue Glick (R-LaGrange) and Jean Breaux (D-Indianapolis) served on a commission which planned last year’s celebration of the 19th Amendment’s centennial. Those events included a statehouse historical marker, but Glick says the Indiana Department of Administration, which oversees the s...

The Indiana Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to severely limit the governor’s ability to declare public emergencies.

The Indiana Department of Health reported 201 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the state’s total to 11,947 confirmed deaths. The

Weekly Statehouse Update: School Choice Expansion, Defund The Police Ban Rejected Lauren Chapman/IPB News School voucher expansion clears the House. The Senate passes a bill to more harshly penalize rioters. And a measure banning “defund the police” is soundly rejected.  Here’s what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse. Controversial legislation that would create Indianas first educational savings account program and expand the eligibility of state-funded private school vouc...

The governor’s authority to declare disaster emergencies would be severely restricted under legislation unanimously approved by a Senate committee Tuesday.

Listen to the broadcast version of this story. It could get easier for landowners who do climate-friendly practices to get some extra cash under a new state Senate bill. The bill would create a state program to help landowners sell carbon credits to businesses like Microsoft and Amazon that want to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. When a landowner plants a stand of trees or puts cover crops on farmland, it can trap the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Sustainab...