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The grassroots organization Lawrence County Deserves Better put together the rally in Mitchell, Indiana, on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Organizers said cuts to SNAP, Medicaid and Medicare exacerbate the rural community's care and food deserts.

Hoosiers call on Indiana's U.S. senators to vote 'no' on cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare

The U.S. Senate returns this week to discuss the federal reconciliation bill. The legislation includes hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts to programs that Hoosiers said they depend on to survive. Some Hoosiers are calling for U.S. Sens. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) to vote no on the legislation.

The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority abruptly shut down a federal rental assistance program in March 2025.

Judge orders Indiana to reopen federal rental assistance program

A county judge is ordering the state to reopen a federal rental assistance program that it abruptly shut down in March.

The Olympic swimming trials were held at Lucas Oil last summer.

Indianapolis diving back in to host 2028 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials

Indianapolis will be hosting the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials again in 2028.

FSSA Secretary Mitch Roob said the federal legislation would give the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the authority to deny Indiana's request for the new managed care tax.

FSSA 'races' for approval on new HIP 3.0 funding structure before CMS can deny it

Policy proposals in the federal reconciliation bill could put Indiana's new Medicaid expansion funding structure in jeopardy. The Family and Social Services Administration said it's trying to get federal approval on the new funding structure before that bill is signed into law.

E. Indiana Couple Arrested For Dealing Steroids

Drug Enforcement Agency agents call the couple's home the largest steroid production site ever uncovered in this state.

People participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for public broadcasters PBS and NPR outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025.

Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting

President Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back the $1.1 billion in federal subsidies for public broadcasting that Congress approved earlier this year. His request also includes cuts to foreign aid.

Bridget Kennedy, lead tutor at Pleasant Run Elementary School, leads two students through a phonemic awareness exercise on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

This Indianapolis tutoring program helps struggling readers. It's in jeopardy as funding runs out

Circle City Readers' literacy program is helping young readers in Marion County, but its future is at risk as pandemic-era funding runs out.

XiaoFeng Wang and Nianli Ma are asking permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a motion to unseal by Rianna Pfefferkorn, a Stanford University legal scholar.

Wang moves to join court fight to unseal warrants used to search his homes

Months after IU fired them and the FBI searched their homes, former professor XiaoFeng Wang and his wife Nianli Ma are asking a federal court to unseal the search warrants.

Indiana went 15 years without executing someone on death row before executing two men in the last six months.

Gov. Mike Braun open to discussion about future of capital punishment in Indiana

Gov. Mike Braun said he's open to a discussion about the future of capital punishment in Indiana.

Exercising his new authority from a last-minute change to the state budget, Braun replaced the three elected IU trustees this week.

Braun defends move on IU trustees while terminated members speak out

Gov. Mike Braun talked to reporters Tuesday about his sudden replacement of three elected IU trustees. The former board members and their replacements also are speaking publicly about the move.

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