While Gov. Mike Braun has generally indicated that he would support a presidential request to help fight crime, he has not explicitly said that he would be willing to use Indiana National Guard troops for that purpose.
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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, Attorney General Todd Rokita and the Indiana Department of Health are fighting against court orders granting the changes.
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Under Gov. Mike Braun’s new policy, all women employed by the state, including both full- and part-time workers, are eligible for up to six weeks of paid childbirth recovery leave.
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Patrick Price, Gov. Mike Braun’s newly minted general counsel, has provided legal guidance for the State Budget Agency, Indiana Department of Revenue, Indiana Office of Technology and the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
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Indiana leaders gathered Thursday to consider how the state could mine its ample coal waste for the rare earth elements key to modern technology — in a bid to boost domestic production and break China’s dominance.
The new congressional map that California voters approved marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election. But Republicans are still ahead in the fight.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said in a news release that the move will bring 5,000 high-paying jobs to Indiana, “cementing our state as a leader in clean, reliable nuclear power.” The state doesn’t currently have any nuclear generators.
Members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and multiple community advocates gathered Monday inside the Statehouse rotunda to oppose Republican efforts to redraw Indiana’s congressional maps before the next census.
Gov. Mike Braun’s post-election fundraising committees continue to draw major support from Indiana’s business community less than a year into his first term as governor, according to new Federal Election Commission filings.
The goal for President Donald Trump and his allies is for Republican supermajorities in Indiana to redraw the state’s maps to buoy Republicans’ chances of keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections.
Josh Richardson will oversee efforts to “strengthen workforce alignment and support both the attraction of new businesses and the growth of existing employers through region-led planning,” the Governor’s Office said.
Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray maintains that there still isn’t enough support in his chamber for redistricting.
Currently, seven of Indiana’s nine districts are represented by Republicans. Advocates of redistricting say that new maps could give the GOP a strong shot at all nine seats.
Braun, a former U.S. senator who left Washington, D.C. to lead Indiana, framed the moment as traditional values vs. prioritizing government over individual liberty.
After three executions in less than a year — ending a nearly 15-year pause in Indiana’s use of capital punishment — it’s not clear when the state will carry out another.
Indiana tax collections are running $270 million ahead of projections after three months of the fiscal year, according to the latest monthly revenue report.
Death row inmate Roy Lee Ward was executed by lethal injection early Friday morning at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
Condemned man Roy Lee Ward has withdrawn the final two federal lawsuits that sought to delay his execution, effectively guaranteeing that his death sentence will be carried out before sunrise Friday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.
Findings of conflicts of interest, inadequate internal policies and lavish travel spending at the Indiana Economic Development Corp. have led to calls from Statehouse Democrats for further investigation into the operations of the IEDC for potential criminal wrongdoing.
State officials on Thursday released results of a monthslong forensic audit of the Indiana Economic Development Corp. and some of its related entities.
A short-lived shutdown would likely have a minimal impact on the day-to-day lives of Hoosiers, with the exception of Indiana’s 24,000 federal employees. Some of them will stop being paid or could even be laid off.
The court said it rejected the ACLU’s request because it is unlikely to prevail on arguments that Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and the state’s vital records director violated the Fourteenth Amendment rights of two transgender Hoosiers.
Unless a court intervenes, Roy Lee Ward will be the third person executed since Indiana resumed capital punishment in December 2024, after more than a decade-long pause.
Secretary of Commerce David Adams remains both CEO and president of the Indiana Economic Development Corp., but that’s expected to change next month.