Ray Lay, a 66-year-old Black veteran Hoosier, was recently elected to the national board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. His election gives hope that some of the most underrepresented groups will have an advocate on a national level.

A $2 million gift will allow the Center for Leadership Development to expand services through its news RISE campaign.

The world's largest firefighter conference returns to downtown Indianapolis this week.

A shooting outside an Indianapolis funeral home left a 4-year-old in critical condition and may have injured up to four others, police said.

The Indiana State Fair typically draws nearly 1 million people over its run of less than three weeks. And the state is in the middle of the sharpest spike in daily COVID-19 cases since the pandemic's earliest days.

The new program to help Indianapolis residents facing eviction comes ahead of the expected expiration of the federal eviction moratorium on July 31.

There were 1,928 individuals counted in the 2021 Point-in-Time Count, a 21 percent increase over 2020.

A new diversion program aims to help people with substance use disorders avoid jail and overdoses.

Tennessee-based Contour Airlines will resume its plan to launch operations out of Indianapolis this fall with three daily nonstop flights to currently underserved “drive market” destinations.

Law enforcement says there is no evidence a gunman was motived by racial or ethnic bias, or sought to advance an ideology when he shot and killed eight people at the FedEx Ground facility near Indianapolis on April 15.