Caroline Beck
Government ReporterCaroline Beck is a government reporter for WFYI. She previously worked as an education reporter at IndyStar, with a focus on Marion County schools. Before that she covered the statehouse for Alabama Daily News in Montgomery, Alabama.
Caroline was born and raised in Indianapolis, and graduated from Hanover College in southern Indiana.
Contact Caroline at cbeck@wfyi.org and follow her on X at @CarolineB_Indy
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Provisional ballots in Fountain and Montgomery counties could decide Indiana's closest primary race. -
Two prominent Democratic state senators did not run for reelection this year, and a third who voted against redistricting, retired – leaving three Indiana General Assembly primary races wide open. -
Indiana’s Democratic Party chair, Karen Tallian, says more democrats are running for office in Indiana than she has seen in decades. We asked her why that might be. -
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it will move leadership of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from Washington, D.C., to Indianapolis. -
Andrew Dezelan, a Democratic candidate for Indiana Senate District 31, says he will stay in the May 5 primary, despite his arrest on preliminary charges of cocaine possession. -
Indiana has some of the most stringent cannabis laws in the country, but despite that, use among adults has consistently increased over the past decade. -
Indiana's child care office will begin enrolling new families in the state's CCDF voucher program in late May, using $200 million in emergency funding. -
A candidate for the Senate District 31 race, Andrew Dezelan, was arrested on Sunday for possession of cocaine and resisting law enforcement while out canvassing a Fishers neighborhood.
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Proposed federal rollbacks to coal ash cleanup rules are raising concerns that toxic contamination could worsen in Indiana, which has more coal ash sites than any other state. -
Gov. Mike Braun appointed Jennifer Dorfmeyer to continue leading the Indiana Department of Child Services. She has served in the role since January, following the previous leader's leave of absence.
