(SOUTH BEND, Ind.) – Indiana is installing anti-overdose drug dispensers. For the last few years, police and paramedics have been equipped with naloxone, trade-named Narcan, a drug which can reverse the potentially fatal effects of an opioid overdose. Narcan kits will now be available to the general public, with a free vending machine at the […]

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s attorney general is doubling down on his insistence that parents, and not schools, make the decisions for kids. AG Todd Rokita on Monday issued the Parents’ Bill of Rights 2.0, which includes a section on vaccines and the coronavirus vaccine. Rokita says there are no statewide requirements that kids get the coronavirus shot, […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Governor Holcomb says he has questions about legislators’ proposed limits on private vaccine mandates. Holcomb says he’ll end Indiana’s 20-month health emergency next week if three provisions of his executive orders are added to state law. He says he’s pleased a proposed bill addresses all three. But the bill packages those provisions with […]

(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) – After a little more than two weeks of vaccinating Hoosier kids against COVID-19, about one in 14 has now gotten the first dose. In the last four days, the Indiana Department of Health has reported 34,000 new vaccinations of kids age five to 11. That’s four times those reported in the first […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana legislators are pitching in to help Afghan refugees at Camp Atterbury, and they’re inviting you to help too. Each year, the House and Senate cooperate on a bipartisan drive to help one selected charity. This year, it’s the more than five-thousand refugees who fled Afghanistan and are passing through Camp Atterbury while […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana’s infant mortality numbers for 2020 are more or less unchanged from the year before. 522 Indiana babies didn’t reach their first birthday last year. That’s five fewer deaths than 2019, and a 16% drop in four years. But because births were down too, the mortality rate, of 66 per 10,000, went up […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Governor Holcomb says passing three bills could position Indiana to end its 20-month pandemic health emergency, and legislators may return to work early to do it. Holcomb’s emergency order is scheduled to expire December 1, but can be renewed for up to 30 days at a time. Holcomb says before the order can […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – The 2022 General Assembly is underway — and with it, a return to the old normal. Most of the 2021 session was held under COVID social-distancing protocols. 20 of the 50 senators sat in the balcony spectators’ gallery, and the House didn’t use the House chamber at all — it met in a […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) -Indiana’s largest teachers’ union says the state needs to do more to fix a teacher shortage. The Indiana State Teachers Association says Indiana’s made big strides toward the union’s long push to make salaries competitive with schools in other states. President Keith Gambill says three-quarters of Indiana school districts now meet the ISTA’s benchmark […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – The Marion County sheriff is suing to get prospective deputies into the state training academy. The sheriff’s department runs its own training academy, which has earned national accreditation. But the Indiana General Assembly unanimously passed a new police reform law this year which includes new training requirements, including de-escalation training. Sheriff Kerry Forestal […]