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Indiana Senate Republicans unveiled their $36 billion two-year state budget proposal Thursday making a number of changes to the Houses K-12 funding plan and focusing heavily on one-time spending.

After a school shooting in Indiana, lawmakers more than doubled the amount of money schools could access for safety. But political leaders refuse to discuss broadly restricting access to guns.

As the first installments of the opioid settlement money made their way to state and local governments in Indiana, conversations about what the money will be spent on and who has the ultimate say are top of mind.

At least 21 have embraced what two legal scholars describe as discriminatory censorship laws.

It’s not every day that Santa Claus winds up before a judge, but that’s exactly where the big man found himself some nine decades ago — in a case that surely goes down in Indiana Supreme Court history.

Its been more than three years since federal loan repayments were paused because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In October, the freeze will be over for more than 900,000 Hoosiers.

Some parents are opposing a fast-tracked proposal by the Indianapolis Public Schools administration to relocate a magnet program of mostly minority students from the city's Northside to a Downtown building where a long-running school would be shuttered.

The Indianapolis Public Schools Board has approved an "innovation and autonomy framework" that will completely reshape the operations of all schools starting next year by decentralizing power. IPS Superintendent Lewis Ferebee has characterized it as "reinventing" the district.

A rollercoaster of action on a bill to eliminate Indianas handgun carry permits. Lawmakers change, again, a controversial school curriculum bill. And a Senate committee halts a measure on state agency rule-making. Here's what you might have missed this week at the Statehouse.

It's been 19 months since Lloyd Knight became principal at Howe Community High School. Next month, the State Board of Education will vote whether the school should close or become a charter school free of state sanctions.