During the IMPD Honor Awards ceremony Thursday, Nov. 3, IMPD Officer David Spurgeon and Crimewatch Coordinator Paula Barnes were celebrated with a Medal of Merit for the Active Shooter Program.

The Athenaeum was one of 10 landmarks added Wednesday to the federal government's National Historic Landmarks Program

Indianapolis is now in a tight race with Raleigh, North Carolina to win Beneful's dog park makeover.
The contest, which also includes $5,000 in new equipment, runs through Nov. 1 at 11:59 p.m.

Fundraising efforts to restore a local downtown landmark have proven to be successful. The Indiana Landmarks Foundation launched a campaign this month to raise $60,000 dollars by Nov. 7 to repair the Ayres clock at the southwest corner of Washington and Meridian streets. That goal was reached this week.

In the poorest neighborhoods in Indianapolis, people live sicker, shorter lives. What would it take to narrow the health gap?

Each household may dispose of as many as 40 bags of leaves each week during the collection window on their regular trash day.

The High Intensity Drug Traffic Areas program means more federal dollars and enhanced intelligence gathering for federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies working in Indiana.

After its circuitous route through all of Indiana's 92 counties over the last five weeks, the high-tech Bicentennial torch took its victory lap in an IndyCar to the steps of the Indiana Statehouse Saturday.

Crews are doing mainentance and modernaization work on bridges spanning the northside of the downtown area, from Senate Avenue to Alabama Street.

One in five Marion County residents lives in poverty, and among children, the rate is even higher - one in three. A new initiative called the Faith & Action Project aims to galvanize the faith community, nonprofits and government to fight poverty. On Thursday, Sept. 29, the project will hold its inaugural event, a discussion about poverty and inequality with public media talk-show host Tavis Smiley and New York Times columnist David Brooks, at Clowes Memorial Hall.