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The South Bend Common Council voted to raise all city employees’ salaries by 2.5 percent Monday evening while simultaneously eliminating any raises larger than that.

Elkhart’s $92.6 million 2022 budget is now in effect after the common council passed a series of bills Monday night approving it.

Some of Indiana’s law enforcement agencies are changing the way they operate based on an outside review of the state’s policing policies and procedures. 

The northern Indiana utility NIPSCO has refined its long-term plans to be mostly powered by renewable energy in the next 20 years. That includes the option of retiring its Michigan City coal plant up to two years early.

Photo credit: According to an order from the Indiana Supreme Court, judges hearing eviction cases in the state must inform the landlord and tenant of pre-eviction resources.Credit Lauren Chapman/IPB NewsEdit | Remove

The Indiana Supreme Court is trying to help avoid evictions by getting landlords and tenants into diversion programs. 

Indiana is once again accepting grant applications from community groups and schools, targeted at catch-up programs for students who fell behind academically because of COVID-19. 

Indiana’s unemployment rate for September was 4 percent, dropping very slightly from the month before. Meanwhile, the head of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development estimated at a cabinet meeting Thursday there’s still nearly 140,000 unfilled jobs.

Last week, South Bend won the 2021 Driehaus Award for the Evolution of Form-Based Codes due to the city’s innovative zoning policy, and local urban planners are excited. But what exactly does it mean?

The Indiana General Assembly has two new members, one a Republican and one a Democrat.

Organized efforts to prevent certain policy changes in schools have disrupted school board meetings across the country, and educators and school officials are calling for more civility in places where it's happening in Indiana.

The state has its first political fundraising organization for the environment. The group Indiana United for Our Future — or INUF— hopes to raise money for environmental candidates running for the state legislature.

Indiana Sen. Scott Baldwin (R-Noblesville) has been linked to the anti-government extremist group the Oath Keepers.

South Bend officials and community leaders held a press conference Wednesday calling for an end to gun violence after three people were shot and killed in the city in the past week.

The Environmental Protection Agency this week laid out how it plans to address PFAS. Exposure to these toxic, human-made chemicals has been linked to cancer, problems with the immune system, and developmental issues in children.

For weeks, hospitals across Indiana have endured a surge of new COVID-19 cases. Once again, the strain has revealed systemic flaws.

One WVPE listener county is back in the “yellow” and two have moved out of the “red” this week on the Indiana Department of Health’s COVID-19 tracking map. 

Richmond’s Earlham College says some low-income Hoosier students will pay no tuition to attend the private Quaker college. The new program aims to increase the number of Indiana high schoolers that choose to go to college.

To qualify for a tuition-free education at Earlham College beginning next fall, a student must live in Indiana, be eligible for a federal Pell Grant, and their family must make $60,000 or less per year.  Base tuition to attend Earlham for next fall is more than $49,000.

American farmers are less confident about current and future conditions than they were a month ago, according to the September Ag Economy Barometer report. The report recorded the weakest farmer sentiment since July 2020.

Barometer co-author Jim Mintert said the survey picked up a lot of anxiety from ag producers.