State and Local News

Some area communities are now finalists for the 2019 Stellar Communities Program. In an announcement made by the office of Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch, the Jay County Region comprised of the towns ...Read more

Staff members at several Howard County schools dressed in red and held signs ahead of their workdays throughout the area as part of the locally organized Red for Ed event to raise awareness about ...Read more

A need for more space has sparked the Grant County Higway Department to take out a 1.25 million dollar loan for a new storage facility and new equipment for the department. The loan would require ...Read more

A Chesterfield man was found guilty of murder and 5 other felonies by a Madison County jury Wednesday. The charges against 32 year old Agapito Diaz the third stemmed from an attempted robbery in ...Read more

A number of local high schools are among 15 statewide taking part in the 2019 Indiana State High School Clay Target League, which began earlier this spring. Area teams participating in the league ...Read more

The Marion City Council, on an 8-to-1 vote Tuesday night, appeared to have avoided a conflict that threatened to scuttle a tax increment financing package involving expansion of the CIE plant west ...Read more

A Marine Corps honor guard from Grissom Air Reserve base participated in the transfer of Marine Corps Private Fred Freet of Marion at the Indianapolis International Airport yesterday. Freet was ...Read more

Marion High School graduate Dan Swenson has won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in community journalism. Swenson, who is the graphics editor for the Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was part of a ...Read more

A proposed solar farm in Madison County will be discussed at a public open house this evening. Chicago-based Invenergy is planning to construct this solar farm on at least 700 acres in northern ...Read more