Paige Clark - TheStatehouseFile.com

More than a million dollars in federal grants will be awarded to 30 Indiana counties to help pay for damages, debris removal and other expenses caused by the January 5-9 storm.

The Indiana Department of Education released the standardized test scores Friday. The data shows a small increase throughout all subject areas at the statewide level.

The Interim Study Committee on Public Health, Behavioral Health and Human Services met Wednesday to discuss the treatments for opioid addiction, particularly focused on take-home doses of methadone

Nine Indiana cities and counties have been awarded more than $10 million to help eliminate blighted and abandoned homes.

Donuts, cookies and pop used to be standard fare for many school vending machines - but no more. Now machines must be stocked with foods that offer nutritional value and fewer so-called empty calories.

Gov. Mike Pence named trustees to boards at Purdue, University of Southern Indiana, Indiana University and Vincennes University on Wednesday.

Indiana President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said this week's preliminary assembly in Indianapolis "was a very successful first step in the effort to eventually put together a convention of the states to amend the U.S. Constitution."

Stand for Children Indiana, a group that advocates for Common Core and other progressive education issues, says the teacher evaluations conducted last year were inconsistent and that some districts failed to conduct annual evaluations of all certified educators.

Indiana Superintendent Glenda Ritz is seeking to move up a testing program based on new curriculum standards by one year in an effort to extend the state's No Child Left Behind waiver.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan calls for states to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. Pence called the plan an "anti-coal agenda" and pledged to fight it.