To celebrate National Poetry Month NPR is introducing listeners to poets competing to be the next National Youth Poet Laureate. First up: Alyssa Gaines, who's the Indianapolis Youth Poet Laureate.

State police have turned over four teenagers to their parents after several offices in the Indiana Statehouse were vandalized.

The moving process will begin on April 19 and full operations at the new facility will start on May 9.

More money than ever is available to local grassroots groups working on violence reduction efforts in Indianapolis, after an infusion of federal relief money.

A push to draw more independent redistricting maps in Indianapolis is underway with a new commission working on this issue.

State officials say the Indiana School for the Deaf will move from its current Indianapolis location to the site of the state's blind school as part of a planned $225 million upgrade of both programs' facilities.

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis' Dinosphere reopens to the public this weekend. It's been closed for the past year to undergo a $27.5 million expansion called Mission Jurassic.

Indy Parks is offering a $200 "Early Bird" sign-on bonus to new and returning seasonal employees after 100 hours are worked. It will also offer a $200 bonus to part-time seasonal and part-time year-round staffers who refer a new hire.

Law enforcement officials announced charges Tuesday against a man who allegedly shot an Indianapolis police officer in Fountain Square last week.

Parking meter rates downtown and in other areas, are set to go up 25 cents next month.