The Indiana State Department of Agriculture announced last week state food banks will receive $2 million in funding from the legislature.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires and pollution has triggered a statewide air quality action day in Indiana for Thursday.

The Teamsters union and UPS announced a tentative national agreement with less than a week left before a potential strike. A dispute over part-time pay was the last thing holding up negotiations. After a tense few weeks, the tentative agreement announced Tuesday guarantees part-timers $21 an hour removing the threat of an economy-devastating strike that union UPS workers hoped to avoid as much as business and political leaders.

State data shows almost 36,000 Hoosiers were unenrolled from Medicaid in the June 2023 reporting period. That is a significant decrease from both April and May, where disenrollment numbers were over 50,000.

Too few Indiana students were applying for a scholarship that covers 100 percent of tuition at state public universities and colleges. Now a new law automatically enrolls qualified students. State officials are making additional changes to help keep students from falling through the cracks.

It’s been more than a year since Indiana removed the requirement for a permit to legally carry a handgun. Some listeners were curious about how the law is impacting Hoosiers.

Officially becoming a candidate for governor in Indiana is relatively easy. Getting onto the ballot, however, is a much higher bar.

Indiana's unemployment rate was just above 3.2 percent in June, new federal estimates show. The unemployment rate has hovered between 3 percent and 3.2 percent since late 2022 and has been accompanied by record-high total employment. There are a few important limitations in the state and local labor market data the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics releases every month.

More than 19,000 eligible Indiana borrowers will have part or all of their student loans discharges following federal action taken last week by the Biden administration.

In a recent letter, a group of state attorneys general including Indianas Todd Rokita oppose a potential federal rule that would shield the private health information of people who access abortion in states where its legal.