It's the work product of four women legislators, mandated by a bill last session.

More than a 1,000 pages of emails and documents from the office of then-Gov. Mike Pence have been published online for public viewing.

Nine small Indiana communities will pilot a new initiative that seeks to bolster development in their downtown cores.

Four women accuse him of groping them and an Inspector General investigation backs that up.

The ordinance prohibits anyone in the Mile Square - the area around Monument Circle - from sitting or lying down on a public pathway between 6 a.m. and midnight.

Half of the funding is planned to help increase police presence downtown, a direct response to what the mayor and others call "aggressive panhandling."

There's also a new debate over whether the legislature should make the attorney general an appointed, rather than elected position.

The whole project, which city officials refer to as a community justice campus, is part of a push for criminal justice reform from Mayor Joe Hogsett's administration.

Indiana is one of five states without a hate crimes law. After a Carmel synagogue was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti this summer, the push to pass one was re-energized. But a hate crimes law may not help police or prosecutors.

Sen. Jeff Raatz (R-Centerville) will become the new committee chairman in the 2019 General Assembly.