Indiana will begin registering businesses as "benefit corporations," which gives companies the flexibility to be socially conscious while still making money.

The 2016 legislative session has yet to start, but already pharmaceutical industry groups are clashing with law enforcement organizations over a bill that would require a prescription for a common a cold medicine also used to make methamphetamine.

Leaders from Indiana's medical device industry and both of the state's U.S. senators hailed Congress' passage Friday of a more than $1 trillion spending bill. The measure temporarily halts a controversial medical device tax.

Mayor-elect Joe Hogsett made several administration appointment.

Gov. Mike Pence says 323 companies, up from 285 in 2014, pledged to create new jobs over the next few years.

The House GOP road funding plan includes a move Bosma says is long overdue - automatic increases in the state's fuel taxes tied to increases in the consumer price index and highway construction costs.

The General Assembly allocated $84 million - taken from the Tax Amnesty program - to award $42 million each to two regions in the Regional Cities Initiative. But the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and Gov. Mike Pence instead chose three winners, declaring their intent to ask the legislature for more money from tax amnesty to pay the full $42 million to all three regions.

Gov. Mike Pence announced Tuesday that three Indiana regions - North Central, Northeast and Southwest - were chosen from a group of seven to receive funding from the Regional Cities Initiative.

This was the Indianapolis City-County Council's final meeting of the 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.