WFYI's Jill Ditmire spoke with Arts for Learning President and CEO Joellen Florio Rossebo about the sudden changes that she, her staff and artists had to make to keep bringing creative arts to kids.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Indiana experienced a third week of unprecedented spikes in applications for unemployment insurance in response to massive COVID-19-related layoffs.

WFYI's Jill Ditmire spoke with the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation's Artistic Director, Rob Dixon, about a relief fund created specifically to help local "gig" musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WFYI's Jill Ditmire spoke with Deputy Director for Horticulture and Natural Resources Jonathan Wright about the decision to close Newfields, and when it might reopen its gardens and the Fairbanks 100 Acres Art and Nature Park.

Nursing homes and senior living facilities in places like Indiana, Illinois and Iowa have experienced dozens COVID-19 cases and deaths. Now, these places are facing a lot of pressure to keep residents safe -- and occupied.

WFYI's JIll Ditmire spoke with Lawrence Central High School theater teacher Kathleen Clark Horrigan about finishing the school year with distance-learning, and how she changed the curriculum to help students process the disruption and fear.

The state's largest school district, Indianapolis Public Schools, begins its remote learning plan Thursday. It will be the first day of learning since March 12, when the Indianapolis Mayor ordered all public schools to close amidst the surging coronavirus pandemic.

Marion County again had the most new COVID-19 cases reported Thursday, at 127, raising its total to 2,415 or about 38 percent of Indianas total.

Decatur County and two other counties in southeast Indiana have among the highest per-capita infection rates in the country, topping the Seattle area and some counties near hard-hit Detroit.

The ACLU's request noted prisons and jails are particularly vulnerable to disease outbreaks. And it urged the state to -- at least temporarily -- release jail and prison inmates who are in high-risk categories from the virus.