State Budget

At a time when more Hoosiers are getting outside, the legislature has made even more budget cuts to Indiana’s underfunded and understaffed environmental…

The Indiana Department of Health reported 49 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the state’s total to 12,864 confirmed deaths. The…

Lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a $37 billion state budget. Unemployment benefits will be taxed. And a ban on vaccine passports.Here’s what you might…

Republicans override another Gov. Eric Holcomb veto. A new revenue forecast projects billions more for the new state budget. And the latest anti-abortion…

Indiana’s new, two-year, $36 billion state budget is headed for its final negotiation phase after the Senate approved its version of the spending plan…

Indiana legislative leaders say they want to end the 2021 session more than a week early. And they plan to take the unusual step of moving up their…

Gov. Eric Holcomb’s new state budget proposal would spend $1.13 billion over the next two years on one-time initiatives. And almost none of that would be…

Higher education institutions have been asked to take a 7 percent cut in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the state confronts budget shortfalls, Gov.…

Indiana State Representative Gail Riecken of Evansville was among Democrats who voted against the $31 billion, two-year state budget.Riecken says one…