Gov. Eric Holcomb says he wants to be a barrier buster to help reduce racial inequality in the Hoosier State.

Gov. Eric Holcomb is pitching an idea to calm concerns about school funding, but school leaders are doubtful it will truly clear up the problem and say it could make things like navigating teacher pay even more challenging.

Stage 4.5 in place since the beginning of July restricts restaurants to 75 percent capacity and limits bars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues to 50 percent.

Groups including Common Cause Indiana, the League of Women Voters of Indiana, the ACLU of Indiana and the Greater Indianapolis NAACP all want the state to expand vote-by-mail to anyone who wants it for the Nov. 3 election.

Gov. Eric Holcomb reversed course Friday the executive order establishing a statewide mask mandate will include no criminal penalty.

Attorney General Curtis Hill released a non-binding opinion that said even the broad emergency powers in state law dont authorize the governor to issue a mask mandate or attach a criminal penalty to it.

All Hoosiers will have to wear a mask in public starting Monday, July 27, Gov. Eric Holcomb announced Wednesday.

Attorney General Curtis Hill, in a non-binding opinion, says Gov. Eric Holcomb doesn't have the authority to mandate Hoosiers wear masks in public or attach a criminal penalty to that order.

Many governors have ordered the release of certain inmates to help with social distancing in prisons. In Indiana, Gov. Eric Holcomb has resisted calls to do that, leaving it to county courts to depopulate prisons. Most of them haven't.

Indiana will extend its current capacity limits for restaurants and bars and other restrictions for at least another two weeks because of an increasing number of coronavirus cases across the state, Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday.