Despite concerns, the City County Council is committing up to $23 million to pay for a mixed-use project at the former Market Square Arena site. Members voted 18-9 on the bonding.

An effort to connect Indianapolis nonprofits with public safety launches this week. It's an initiative from the Central Indiana Community Foundation.

The dust is still settling on Capitol Hill after California Democrat Dianne Feinstein fired a verbal bazooka at the Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday, and the fight is far from over.

The fund would provide grants to certain law schools that maintain a veteran's clinic. The little to no cost clinics would allow law students to gain career experience by counseling or representing veterans in claim for disability compensation.

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard's administration is recommending the former General Motors Stamping Plant as the site of a proposed criminal justice complex. The facility on the city's southwest side would be home to adult detention, inmate processing, the prosecutor, public defender, clerk, probation and community corrections.

The first bill signed into law for this legislative session is one expanding access to the Military Family Relief Fund. Gov. Pence signed it Thursday, providing financial assistance to more than 26,000 post 9-11 Hoosier veterans.

The president is expected to tell the Labor Department to change the rules about who is eligible. Critics say that might backfire. Proponents say it would narrow income inequality.

Fiscal leaders from the Indiana House and Senate have a tentative deal to reduce corporate income tax rates even further and give counties the option of cutting property taxes on business equipment.

Hoping to boost young people's enrollment in health care, President Obama appears on the web-based show Between Two Ferns, where he submitted to questions from Zach Galifianakis.

"They want to bring a train through here, that's fine," a Wyoming landowner says. "We never expected and we never agreed to a bicycle trail." His family is fighting a rails-to-trails conversion.