U.S. Rep. Jim Banks will give a primetime speech at next week’s Republican National Convention, putting him on the same stage as major GOP politicians and signaling his continued rise within the party.

On Saturday, the Indiana Democratic Party will host its own convention to nominate its candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general — similar to the Republican Party’s convention last month in which delegates chose Noblesville pastor Micah Beckwith over party favorite Julie McGuire.

After 15 years with no executions of the eight men on Indiana’s death row, Indiana’s top elected officials filed with the Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday to schedule an execution date for Fort Wayne’s Joseph Corcoran. He was convicted of murdering four people in 1997.

Former President Donald Trump issued an unexpected endorsement in Indiana’s Republican lieutenant governor race Thursday — backing Rep. Julie McGuire for the nomination.

Indiana voter turnout rates have long lain among the lowest in the country. Despite that, some Hoosier voters cast ballots year after year. And political parties rely on them.

The video could fall under a recent law meant to crack down on digitally altered campaign media.

The primary is scheduled for next Tuesday, May 7.

An industry leader at one of Indiana’s largest health systems urged fellow hospital stakeholders to donate to gubernatorial candidate Brad Chambers over competitors, saying he is “deeply concerned about the next four years if one of the other candidates is our next republican candidate for governor.”

In a campaign ad released last month — and in new statements made this week — Banks called out Rust for “lying” about his home address on his voter registration, and while giving a deposition under oath.

The slew of candidates campaigning for governor raised a combined $12.5 million in the most expensive and competitive Republican gubernatorial primary in the state’s recent history — all according to the most recent campaign finance reports released Wednesday by the Secretary of State’s office.