The Indiana State Department of Health reported 68 additional confirmed deaths over the last week, bringing the state's total to 3,140. The state announced more than 99,000 total confirmed cases including two days with more than 1,000 reported cases and more than 1.5 million Hoosiers tested.

The trial is for a vaccine in development by pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and Oxford University. It's one of three vaccines in the U.S. in the final stage of study before Food and Drug Administration approval for widespread use.

Streets that have been closed for months, to expand outside restaurant seating, will open again after Labor Day.

More than a dozen statewide government, non-profit and economic development groups are collaborating to help communities across Indiana respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The state health department will now assign scores to all 92 counties based on the number of new cases per 100,000 residents and the percentage of tests confirming COVID-19 infections.

Starting Sept. 8, bars and nightclubs will be allowed to open at 25 percent indoor capacity. Outdoor seating will be capped at 50 percent.

Indiana health officials are warning residents to take coronavirus precautions seriously over the Labor Day weekend, even as new statewide COVID-19 risk ratings show most counties have minimal or moderate virus spread.

An early learning nonprofit has awarded more than $13.1 million in grant money to child care and early learning providers around Indiana, to help them navigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Indiana University said Thursday that in some fraternity and sorority houses, more than half of the residents have tested positive for COVID-19.

This is the second round of funding in the Next Level Connections Broadband Grant Program that will connect Hoosiers to affordable and dependable internet.