A company hoping to build a controversial industrial facility is now looking to Cass County, after its plans were rejected in Muncie.

The bill aims to help local governments cut costs by allowing them to fix or reconstruct a drain in a state wetland without a permit from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.

Ogden Dunes residents argue protections previously installed are exposed to Lake Michigan and at least one section of a steel wall is failing.

In 2017, the state passed a law to let larger, investor-owned utilities replace those pipes and recover the costs. This bill would let smaller, municipally-owned utilities do the same.

The species are already listed as an endangered in multiple states including Indiana. A federal designation would mean more protections, including funding.

Indiana University's Environmental Resilience Institute has developed an interactive map to help cities plan for less clean water in the future.

A seemingly simple bill to help local governments cut costs when repairing drains is working its way through the state legislature. But environmentalists worry it could harm the states wetlands.

The DNR says that shad die-offs are common in Indiana winters, especially when the temperature suddenly drops from the 30s and 40s to well below freezing.

The federal agency recently ordered Citgo Petroleum Corp. and Oxy USA to begin assessing and cleaning up dangerous waste at the former Cities Service Refinery site in East Chicago.

Researchers at Purdues College of Agriculture will look at developing region-specific deer population models.