Indianapolis launched a new tool, called Community Compass, to help connect people with food assistance.

The Healthy Harvest Market at Brookside is opening near East 10th and North Rural streets in a building that used to house Pogues Run Grocer.

Indianapolis is expanding a pilot program that increases food access by providing car-share rides. The Lyft Grocery Access Program will now be offered to near northwest side residents.

The Trump administration is cutting off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for about 700,000 Americans, but U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says Hoosiers won't be affected.

Polis Center researchers tracked food accessibility trends and found 10 percent more people live in a food desert than did in 2016.

Janet Easley says everyone is welcome to the Turner Family Thanksgiving Meal, which will be held at three locations across Indianapolis this year.

The number of grocery stores in Indianapolis has increased in the past year, but so has the number of people living in food deserts, according to a new report from SAVI.

The Patachou Foundation aims to serve healthy, fresh meals to food insecure children in the city, and it is now creating a program designed for high school students. WFYI's Terri Dee talks with Executive Director Matthew Feltrop about current services and the new fellowship.

About one in every five Marion County residents live in a food desert -- an estimated 196,000 people in the county.

Democratic incumbent Joe Hogsett and Republican challenger Jim Merritt's first face to face mayoral debate focused on fighting poverty and raising the minimum wage.