The metro area which incudes Indianapolis, Carmel, and Anderson only made slight improvements in about half of the topics discussed in the report.

Indianapolis is competing with at least three other cities: Pittsburgh, Minneapolis and Chicago. The winner will be announced in July.

Indianapolis has a new community-driven crime prevention effort. Mayor Joe Hogsett announced the first Director of Community Violence Reduction Shonna Majors and a new grant program to fund local solutions.

Fifty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was killed in California. Just two months earlier, he gave an impromptu speech in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.

The city plans to create an Assessment and Intervention Center as part of its Community Justice Campus, expected to open in 2021.

Wednesday's open house and presentation focused on INDOT's "System-Level Analysis" conducted in response to community input on the future of I-65 and I-70.

Anthem announced Tuesday that will spend about $20 million to renovate its operations center near downtown Indianapolis into a new headquarters.

Anthem executives predict renovations to be completed by the end of 2018. There will be room for an average of 2,600 employees with collaboration areas, employee lounges, a fitness facility, and a healthy-food focused cafeteria.

Indianapolis City-County Council President Vop Osili and six other councilors from both major parties announced the meetings during a news conference Thursday.

Indianapolis, Jeffersonville and Richmond are each getting $300,000 to either assess and clean up contamination or redevelop cleaned-up sites.