The funds will be used for infrastructure upgrades as developers build a makerspace,' bio-tech lab and entrepreneurship workspace. Planners say 16 Tech' will host up to 2,600 jobs.

City-County Democrats held on to a one seat majority despite controversial changes to the council's structure.

City-County Council candidates face new challenges in the first election since districts were redrawn and at-large seats were eliminated.

The joint government of Marion County and Indianapolis is undergoing its first major changes since it began 45 years ago.

The 2016 budget for the city of Indianapolis is approved, with councilors signing off on it Monday night. But there was a fair amount of discontent toward the spending outline.

The Indianapolis City-County Council decided after a lengthy debate to not override a mayoral veto for the second time over funding for new police cars. And BlueIndy electric rental cars parked downtown risk being towed away.

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and city-county councilors have reached a tentative deal in a lawsuit over the city's electric vehicle fleet.

Top officials in the mayor's office are calling it a "maintenance" budget. Mayor Greg Ballard has referred to it as "pretty vanilla." And so the 2016 spending plan for Indianapolis -- Ballard's eighth and final -- is being set up as a dull one, but there are still some areas where the City-County Council could take issue.

Gentrification of urban neighborhoods often leads to a rapid rise in property values. Now an Indianapolis city-councilor wants to try to protect long-time residents of those neighborhoods by limiting the increase in property taxes.

An Indianapolis city council committee Monday advanced a resolution supporting a retail workers bill of rights after Republican councilors blocked the resolution earlier this month.