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The new two-year state spending plan was approved by the General Assembly last week. Slightly more than half of the $31 billion budget goes toward K-12 education, with funding going up 2.3 percent each year.

As the Department of Revenue continues processing payments sent in by the Nov. 16 deadline, it now says more than 65,000 taxpayers have sent in about $137 million, with that number expected to grow even more.

At a House Leadership Conference on Wednesday, U.S. Congresswoman Susan Brooks praised the passage of a bill she introduced that establishes a task force…

Ryan Mishler will replace retiring lawmaker Luke Kenley as the Senate's budget architect.

The agency will accelerate cleanup at 21 sites across the country.

About 50 people attended Wednesday's public hearing on the plan to cleanup land in and around an East Chicago industrial site.

Dust samples have been taken from around 70 homes at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago. About 40 have come back above the level considered safe.

U.S. Steel is planning to idle its East Chicago Tin plant, which makes tin-plated metal for uses such as food and paint cans, and lay off about 150 workers.

The Black Caucus uses town halls each summer to update Hoosiers on the previous legislative session and get input for next year.

Some lawmakers felt the bill could go further, while others have philosophical issues with "Stand Your Ground" laws at all. But no one spoke against it on the House floor.