(INDIANAPOLIS) – If you haven’t gotten the COVID vaccination yet, don’t count on a financial incentive to do it. President Biden has suggested states use federal pandemic relief money to give people $100 for getting the shot. Governor Holcomb says he’s happy to see the White House looking for ways to boost vaccinations and says […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – State health officials won’t order schools to require masks. But they’re strongly recommending schools do it on their own. Health commissioner Kris Box says local officials have sent a clear message they want their own decision-making authority, and the state will give it to them. She says health officials have provided Hoosiers the […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Republicans will have contested races for at least two of the three statewide offices on the ballot at their state convention next year. Former state Senate candidate Suzie Jaworowski is the latest candidate for treasurer, joining former state party spokesman Pete Seat and Morgan County party chairman Dan Elliott. She scheduled a campaign […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Using your cell phone while driving will now pack an extra penalty. The BMV will now zap you with four points on your license for violating the hands-free law. 20 points in a three-year span gets your license suspended. State police have issued five-thousand tickets and about twice as many warnings since the […]

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — After poring over reports from the U.S. Department of Labor, I-Team 8 has found that Indiana made close to $100 million in unemployment insurance overpayments in 2020. That number doesn’t include another $13 million in overpayments this year. CLICK HERE for the overpayment waiver form in English CLICK HERE for the overpayment waiver form in Spanish Hundreds of complaints […]

(ZIONSVILLE, Ind.) – Indy is taking a regional approach to fighting gun violence, with a nudge from the General Assembly. Legislators voted in April to create a “crime guns task force,” allowing Indy Metro Police to work together with police departments in seven surrounding counties on a unified plan for tracing guns used in crimes. […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Five years into a 20-year local road and bridge program, legislators are looking at whether it should be tweaked. The Community Crossings program was created by then-Governor Mike Pence in 2016, and made permanent under Governor Holcomb the following year. The fund will surpass a billion dollars in grants awarded later this year. […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit Tuesday against two management companies over dangerous and unlivable conditions at two Indy-area apartment complexes. The Attorney General’s Office is suing Aloft Mgt., LLC and Fox Lake AHF, Inc. for allowing the Fox Club and Lakeside Pointe apartment complexes to “fall into egregious disrepair, endangering […]

INDIANAPOLIS — West Nile Virus has been found in mosquitoes sampled in Vigo County, says the Indiana Department of Health. No human cases of West Nile virus have been found in Indiana so far this year. The Indiana Dept. of Health expects to see additional West Nile activity as mosquito season progresses. “Many of us are […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana has resumed expanded unemployment benefits. Governor Holcomb announced last month the state would opt out of the federally funded $300 add-on to jobless benefits. Indiana is one of 26 states to say no to the extra money, but a judge ruled three weeks ago that under state law, Holcomb doesn’t have that […]