Solar advocates said the Indiana legislature is helping utilities eliminate their competition by making independent solar less affordable. That was the message at this years Renewable Energy Day at the Statehouse.

State leaders emphasized the importance of improving the states public health system during an event at Indiana's Statehouse Thursday. Health advocates and various government officials say supporting this system will require increased funding and investment toward public health resources.

Hoosiers would have a lot more control over the data companies keep on them under legislation unanimously approved by a Senate committee Thursday.

Indiana lawmakers are trying to divert more people away from local jails and into mental health treatment. Advocates call a proposed bill compassionate, humane and fiscally responsible.

Indiana lawmakers and leaders are attempting to address the decade-long decline in literacy and reading skills among the states young students.

People with HIV would no longer be subject to harsher criminal penalties under legislation that advanced out of a House committee Wednesday.

A bill to prohibit new physician non-compete agreements passed the Senate Health and Provider Services Committee Wednesday with nine voting for and three against.

The bill cuts the amount of power utilities can buy from the grid during peak demand in half. That means theyd have to show they can generate about 85 percent of their energy themselves or from contracts with other companies.

A bill aimed at making new housing more affordable easily cleared its first legislative hurdle Tuesday.

There are only a handful of companies that sell firefighting gear and all of them use PFAS. That's why the national firefighters union is working to pass this kind of legislation in multiple states.