Gov. Eric Holcomb rescinded several executive orders Tuesday he issued last year to help businesses deal with the pandemic's restrictions.

The Democratic-controlled Indianapolis council voted 19-5 along party lines Monday night to keep the mask mandate and rules that restrict restaurants to 75 percent indoor capacity and bars to 50 percent capacity.

The Indiana Department of Health will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to 12- to 15-year-olds starting Thursday, pending recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is planning for employees working from home to return to their Indianapolis offices this summer. Officials say this is another step towards businesses returning to what operations were before the pandemic.

Local health officials across Indiana can no longer impose emergency rules stricter than the states after Republicans overrode the governors veto. Local legislative bodies county commissioners or city councils will have to enact those restrictions instead.

Advocates for older Hoosiers say while Indiana nursing homes have emerged from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are still ongoing issues that can't be ignored.

Nearly 110 million Americans have been vaccinated against COVID-19. And delivering each dose requires a complex chain of events. This is the story of one of those doses -- and how it ended up in Archie Thomas's left arm at a church recreation center in Evansville, Indiana.

The Indiana Department of Health reported 66 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the states total to 13,003 confirmed deaths. The state also reported more than 7,000 new cases in the last week.

Indiana surpassed 13,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths Sunday. The state's rate of newly reported deaths has continued its exponential slowdown since the state began vaccine distribution.

Advocates for nursing home residents say they worry a new Indiana law expanding COVID-19 liability protections for health care providers will effectively block many lawsuits over neglect and substandard treatment that weren't caused by the pandemic.