INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —The full Indiana House returned to the Statehouse on Wednesday after a five-day break, but partisan differences remained over an unemployment insurance tax bill as a March 14 deadline for adjournment loomed.
Democratic House Speaker Patrick Bauer of South Bend met privately with Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels in ...More
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent for January, according to figures released Wednesday, and state economists predicted the job market would improve in the coming months.
Non-farm employment declined by 2,000 in January as some 327,000 people were looking for work, according ...More
SPRINGFIELD, ILL (WIBQ)-Get ready to either pay more taxes in Illinois or lose thousands of teachers.Governor Pat Quinn outlined his budget plan Wednesday to deal with the state's deficit.But most lawmakers don't want to approve layoffs or tax increases in a recession.The recession has ...More
EDWARDSPORT, IND. (WIBQ)-Changes are coming to a multi-billion dollar project in Knox County.
State regulators have approved "permit modifications" at the Edwardsport power plant.
Indiana's department of environmental management heard public comments in january before making the decision. The changes involve how duke energy will handle coal.
The ...More
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says its free 2010 Indiana Recreation Guide is now available at various retail outlets, DNR properties and at dnr.IN.gov.
The agency says usage of Indiana's state parks has increased over the last few years. Gate revenue increased 8 percent ...More
INDIANAPOLIS (WIBQ)-Hoosiers may be able to buy beer on Sundays. At the end of February the Indiana Senate approved a bill allowing Sunday beer sales at microbreweries. The idea of the bill is to increase brewery business and benefit the state at the same time. The bill does limit ...More
ANDERSON, IND. (WIBQ)-The parent company of an Anderson-based casino is filing for bankruptcy.Centaur Gaming and Hoosier Park officials say that their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing will be used to restructure debt and allow the company to continue operations at the Anderson casino and race track.The company faces ...More
GARY, IND (WIBQ) - Gary Mayor Rudy Clay wants his city to be able to count Gary residents incarcerated outside of the northwestern Indiana city as Gary residents on the 2010 census.
Clay says he intends to ask state lawmakers to pass a bill that counts inmates according to their address ...More
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indianapolis Star has found that many of Indiana's nursing homes employ fewer critical staff members than are needed to care for their often frail residents.
The newspaper found that staffing levels are particularly low at the state's large number of for-profit nursing homes. The Star ...More
SPRINGFIELD, ILL (WIBQ)-The race is set for Governor of Illinois.Illinois state senator Bill Brady officially won the republican nomination for governor.His opponent, Kirk Dillard, conceded after a month of uncertainty.Brady will face democratic Governor Pat Quinn in the November election.More
