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Afghan refugees at Indiana’s Camp Atterbury will need a permanent home in the US, and Muncie is hoping to become an attractive place to settle. As IPR’s Eric Jacobs reports, the city has convened a committee to help the effort.

Over the next two decades, Indiana will need more than $13 billion to repair or replace aging water and wastewater infrastructure, according to the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition.

The groups delivered a letter to Gov. Eric Holcomb on Monday with the signatures of city leaders and groups representing environmentalists, wildlife advocates, hunters, and more.

Too few Indiana students were applying for a scholarship that covers 100 percent of tuition at state public universities and colleges. Now a new law automatically enrolls qualified students. State officials are making additional changes to help keep students from falling through the cracks.

The $5.4 million grant comes from the National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term – or HEAL – Data2Action Initiative. Over the course of five years, it allows researchers to work with overdose fatality review teams in 19 Indiana counties to measure harm reduction efforts.

Indiana lawmakers are trying to divert more people away from local jails and into mental health treatment. Advocates call a proposed bill compassionate, humane and fiscally responsible.

Airports and their advocates have said it would help smaller airports fund these projects many of which often arent eligible for state and federal grants. But the Indiana Department of Environmental Management said paying for airport upgrades goes against the intent of the fund and could ultimately mean less money for environmental cleanups.

Many Hoosiers who are unable to pay their energy bills won't face shutoffs for another 45 days. On Monday, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission ordered some utilities to continue the moratorium on shutoffs through Aug. 14.

House Bill 1041 bans Indiana public and private higher education institutions from allowing transgender women to compete in sports.

The Indiana House passed a bill on Thursday that aims to help ensure AI data centers coming into the state have the massive amount of power they need — primarily by subsidizing small nuclear plants and keeping coal plants online.