The Indiana Department of Environmental Management, or IDEM, is writing new rules for the disposal of coal ash as part of a federal overhaul aimed at tightening regulations governing the waste product.

The air quality may become unhealthy for individuals, especially active children, the elderly, and anyone suffering from lung disease or other serious health problems.

The 133-mile Kankakee River Water Trail stretches through northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois.

A Purdue University study is the first to look at how non-crop plants, like those in your garden at home, expose honeybees to pesticides.

Meltzer Woods near Shelbyville will open Thursday morning at 10:30 a.m. and be open seven days a week from dawn to dusk.

Indiana used 37-percent less coal for electricity generation between 2007 and 2015. Only Ohio and Pennsylvania saw a larger decrease.

The Honey Bee Colony Loss Survey reports this year's first quarter loss is 12-percent, compared to 22-percent last year.

A group of environmental and health advocates are especially concerned about Indiana's coal ash ponds and protecting federal legislation to clean them up.

The rule would be the first in the state to designate a mandatory distance between confined animal feeding operations and waterways.

Congress has spent more than $2.2 billion on the program over the past seven years, funding more than 2,900 projects in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Wisconsin.