Payne Horning

Despite recent news that Indiana's unemployment rate is at a 7-year low, activists say too many newly created jobs in the state are low paying.

The new Broadband Ready Communities Development Center will team with local governments to encourage and approve communications projects that expand Internet access.

The Indiana House Republican Caucus is facing a lawsuit over its decision to withhold emails shared between one of its members and several utility companies.

There are at least a dozen challenges to the Affordable Care Act in the federal courts, including one from Indiana and 39 of its school corporations. They're suing the IRS, Department of Labor and the Treasury Department for what they say is an intrusion of the 10th amendment.

Lawmakers have given $13.5 million dollars to decrease the state's high rate of infant mortality.

More than a year after Indiana lawmakers legalized a so-called cash crop, the coffers are still empty. Legislation that was signed into law in 2014 approved the commercial growth and research of the versatile industrial hemp plant, which is a non-intoxicating form of cannabis. But, lack of federal approval has stalled the state from moving forward.

The Indiana General Assembly allocated nearly $2 billion for the state's colleges in the recently passed budget - including money for new building projects. The only institution that didn't receive funding for one of those projects is Ivy Tech Community College.

Economic leaders fear Indiana isn't attracting enough people into the state to keep its GDP growing steadily. More than 80 percent of the state's growth in the last decade can be attributed to births, not migration. Lawmakers are hoping new legislation will reverse that trend by encouraging communities to work together.

In the waning hours of the 2015 session of the Indiana General Assembly, lawmakers approved a balanced-budget amendment. It would enshrine in the state's constitution a prohibition on the legislature crafting a budget that spends more than the state collects in taxes.

Students in the immersion program would begin simultaneous instruction in two languages beginning in elementary school.