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The new committee will look into how university buildings use energy and vehicles and explore renewable energy and other technology.

Indiana University creates committee to lower its greenhouse gas emissions

Among other things, the new committee will look into how university buildings use energy and vehicles and explore renewable energy and other technology.

There's no timetable for the Supreme Court to rule on a lawsuit between the governor and the General Assembly over whether lawmakers can call themselves into special session during a public emergency.

Indiana Supreme Court weighs arguments in lawsuit between governor, legislature

The Indiana legislature's power to act during a public emergency when it's not in session is at stake in a lawsuit heard before the state Supreme Court Thursday.

Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill has denied wrongdoing but the state Supreme Court ordered a 30-day suspension of his law license after finding “by clear and convincing evidence that (Hill) committed the criminal act of battery.”

Indiana ruled not liable in groping suit vs. ex-top lawyer

A federal appeals court has ruled the women who claimed Indiana's former attorney general drunkenly groped them cannot pursue a lawsuit against the state government under federal sexual harassment laws.

So far this year, there have been cases of bird flu in 24 states affecting chickens and turkeys. The discovery at the Indiana duck farm marks the disease's spread to a third poultry species.

State officials: Bird flu found at Indiana duck farm

Laboratory testing of a commercial duck flock in Elkhart County has come back as presumptively positive avian influenza. So far this year, the virus has been confirmed in 24 states affecting chickens and turkeys.

Hoosiers Rally For Lupus Awareness

The Lupus Foundation of America is trying to raise awareness of the disease in Indiana. The organization held a rally, Friday, near the Statehouse.

FILE - Turkeys stand in a barn on turkey farm near Manson, Iowa on Aug. 10, 2015. When cases of bird flu are found on poultry farms officials act quickly to slaughter all the birds in that flock even when it numbers in the millions, but animal welfare groups say their methods are inhumane.

Bird flu's grisly question: how to kill millions of poultry

The spread of a bird flu that is deadly to poultry raises the grisly question of how farms manage to quickly kill and dispose of millions of chickens and turkeys.

A general view, exterior, of Mackey Arena at Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind., Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018.

Purdue trustees approve $6.7 million in Mackey renovations

Purdue's board of trustees announced Friday it has approved $6.7 million in renovations for Mackey Arena, work funded entirely by private donations and expected to begin after next season.

Chemical weapons are hard to detect because they can break down quickly. But blow flies — that are constantly “tasting” their environment to find a good habitat for their offspring — can help.

IUPUI research uses blow flies to help find chemical weapons

Despite bans, chemical warfare has been used in recent conflicts and experts fear it could be used in the war in Ukraine.

The report recommends schools develop a continuum of alternatives to suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, which it says can reduce the risk of vulnerable youth entering the juvenile justice system.

New report highlights youth concerns with policing, solutions to reduce school-to-prison pipeline

A new report aims to elevate youth voices as part of efforts to eliminate the school-to-prison pipeline. It outlines issues raised by young Hoosiers, and possible solutions to reduce trauma caused by policing and school discipline.

As people filed into the room, it’s tradition to bow towards the holy book, which is placed on an elevated surface and covered by a canopy. People also place money or other gifts at the front of the takhat.

Hundreds gather to honor victims of FedEx shooting as anniversary nears

More than 400 people sit on the ground inside the Sikh Satsang Gurdwara — a religious building for people of the Sikh faith — on the southside of Indianapolis on Sunday to honor the eight people who were killed in a shooting at theFedEx Ground Plainfield facility last year.

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