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Summer is officially over for students in the Indianapolis Public Schools district. IPS students started their first day of school Monday during their third year since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

As special forces try to dislodge armed men who are occupying government buildings in eastern Ukraine, Russia's role in those protests "seems much more evident," NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

A $2 million gift will allow the Center for Leadership Development to expand services through its news RISE campaign.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week it recommends people wear masks in schools as COVID-19 cases surge. It's prompting some Hoosier schools to revise their policies, while others are waiting to make decisions based on local COVID-19 data, as many near – or have already started – a new academic year.

The northern Indiana utility NIPSCO plans to remove coal ash from five ponds at its Michigan City Generating Station which will close by 2028, but will keep a legacy coal ash pond in place as well as coal ash fill on the site.

Students returning to class this month may be interacting with an unknown number of police officers in Indiana schools that haven’t been specially trained for the job. Chase Lyday, director of the Indiana School Resource Officers Association, is on a mission to change that.

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Indiana University can proceed with its plan to require students and employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

Ray Lay, a 66-year-old Black veteran Hoosier, was recently elected to the national board of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. His election gives hope that some of the most underrepresented groups will have an advocate on a national level.

The program aims to expedite small- and large-scale projects in communities that would improve quality of life, and retain and attract workers to the area.

The Hoosier lawmakers joined the vast majority of their Republican colleagues in Congress on a brief in a case that threatens access to abortions.