The ACLU's request noted prisons and jails are particularly vulnerable to disease outbreaks. And it urged the state to -- at least temporarily -- release jail and prison inmates who are in high-risk categories from the virus.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Indiana experienced a third week of unprecedented spikes in applications for unemployment insurance in response to massive COVID-19-related layoffs.

The new state law would make it a misdemeanor to ask for money within 50 feet of any place where financial transactions are made, including parking meters.

A map of where children can get free meals in Indianapolis. More than 150,000 students in Marion County are out of school due to closures over the coronavirus.

Indianapolis Mayor Mayor Joe Hogsett announced a new $2.6 million fund Wednesday to help low-income students and their public schools in Marion County navigate the sudden switch to remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The state's largest school district, Indianapolis Public Schools, begins its remote learning plan Thursday. It will be the first day of learning since March 12, when the Indianapolis Mayor ordered all public schools to close amidst the surging coronavirus pandemic.

WFYI's Jill Ditmire spoke with the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation's Artistic Director, Rob Dixon, about a relief fund created specifically to help local "gig" musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WFYI's JIll Ditmire spoke with Lawrence Central High School theater teacher Kathleen Clark Horrigan about finishing the school year with distance-learning, and how she changed the curriculum to help students process the disruption and fear.

WFYI's Jill Ditmire spoke with Deputy Director for Horticulture and Natural Resources Jonathan Wright about the decision to close Newfields, and when it might reopen its gardens and the Fairbanks 100 Acres Art and Nature Park.

Data from the State Department of Health shows Indiana is testing fewer people for COVID-19 per 100,000 residents than all its neighboring states and the U.S. as a whole.

Thirty more Indiana residents have died from COVID-19, pushing the states death toll during the pandemic past 200 as its confirmed coronavirus cases neared 6,000, state health officials said Wednesday.

In its update Thursday the Indiana State Department of Health says 42 more deaths have been reported in connection with COVID-19, moving the state's total to 245. It also reported an additional 430 cases of COVID-19. To date, there have been 6,531 cases of the disease reported in the state.