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Over 3,000 miles away from the North Pole, you can find jolly men in suits spreading Christmas cheer while dressed as their own personal rendi…
INDIANAPOLIS—Pat Koch is full of the Christmas spirit. It’s hard to be the former co-operator of a theme park called Holiday World, founder of…
The saying is true—birds of a feather flock together. Just ask the Pinders, the family behind a small Indiana turkey farm.
Her coming-of-age tale starts with a tiny Indiana town, a narrow religious upbringing, a conservative family where men were men and women were women.
FRANKLIN—It was July 3, 2021. Stacy Taylor was staying at her friend’s lakehouse in Northern Indiana with two of her children, Dimitri and Sop…
FRANKLIN—It was July 3, 2021. Stacy Taylor was staying at her friend’s lakehouse in Northern Indiana with two of her children, Dimitri and Sop…
INDIANAPOLIS—Butler University hosted STARTedUP Foundation’s 2022 Innovate WithIN State Competition on June 10th, and Patchables LLC came away…
INDIANAPOLIS—Brenda Ward, 62, can’t stand it when people look at their cell phone while trying to order their food.
FRANKLIN, Ind.—It was little Olivia’s second week in the third grade at Webb Elementary.
FRANKLIN, Ind.—It was November 2019, and Stephanie Smith noticed that her son, Charlie, wasn’t feeling well.
INDIANAPOLIS—Stuart Purcell, the Senate reading clerk, gets into speed duels with Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch on the Senate floor.
INDIANAPOLIS—Ninth U.S. President William Henry Harrison would have been 249 Wednesday if he hadn’t died a month into office, allegedly of pne…
INDIANAPOLIS—In this ongoing series, The Statehouse File asks lawmakers six questions in an effort to get to know them beyond the legislation …
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By Haley CarneyTheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS— Hoosier Action, a community organization advocating for rural and small town Indiana, gathe…
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Nearly 400 children from three Indiana elementary schools got a taste of the Christmas hol…
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Gov. Eric Holcomb has selected Col. R. Dale Lyles as the new adjutant general of the Indiana N…
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Eric Holcomb has been selected by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as the 2019 Birch Ba…
By Brynna Sentel TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, for all the people you can, as long as …
Out of Office is an occasional series about the people and place of Indiana.By Victoria Ratliff TheStatehouseFile.com MARTINSVILLE, Ind.— Tr…
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Dr. George Rapp, an orthopedic surgeon and humanitarian, is this year’s recipient of the Sac…
By Victoria Ratliff TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—To shield his then 8-year-old son from war, Baitullah Khoram moved his family to the Un…
By Victoria Ratliff TheStateouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—DG House spent the early years of her career as a photographer for the New York Rangers …
By Brandon Barger TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Annie Ostojic already has an impressive resume: Named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy li…
By Emily Ketterer TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — Hoosiers said goodbye Wednesday to a senator, but also a father. Hundreds packed the In…
By Emily Ketterer TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS —Huddled under a few tents outside on a rainy afternoon, public officials, friends, famil…
Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the vote count on the amendment. It is 9-4, not 5-4.By Erica Irish TheStatehouseFile.com…
By Emily Ketterer TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — “I often ask if Mr. Eiteljorg would be happy, and I think he would.” John Vanausdall h…
By Andrew Longstreth TheStateHouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS— Members of the Indiana House of Representative helped to feed hungry Hoosiers on Wedn…
By James Polston TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—The Jackie Robinson of college basketball fought back against the racial slurs lobbed at h…
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By Eddie Drews TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—The south atrium of the Statehouse echoed with holiday cheer Thursday as children from Weste…
By James Polston TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, toured a historically troubled Indianapolis neighborhoo…
By James Polston TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — The Rotary Club of Indianapolis used the backdrop of Gleaners Food Bank Tuesday to kick …
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, announced his selection of Noelle Sykes t…
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—State Rep. Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, has been hospitalized in northern Michigan following a…
By Dionte Coleman TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS—A photograph hanging on the wall at the Indiana Historical Society showing a Latino man w…
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Eric J. Holcomb announced Monday several new appointments and reappointments to various…
Staff Report The StatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLISâState Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, was recognized with the Army’s Joint Service Achievement M…
By Makenna Mays TheStatehouseFile.com BROOKVILLE, Ind.— Transforming your backyard into a dog rescue may seem farfetched to some, but for Dr. …
By Erica Irish TheStatehouseFile.com FRANKLIN, Ind. — Students and faculty of Franklin College's Pulliam School of Journalism premiered their …
Staff report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS —Former U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar will attend the premiere of the documentary, “Richard Lugar: R…
By Quinn Fitzgerald TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS –Indiana inmate Virginia Hooten hopes The Last Mile program will be the doorway to poss…
By Abrahm Hurt TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — Former state Sen. Beverly Gard said she never intended to run for public office. “It was n…
Staff Report TheStatehousefile.com INDIANAPOLIS—Gov. Eric Holcomb has named Lesley Crane to lead the Indiana Department of Administration, rep…
By Quinn Fitzgerald TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS– For Kayla Xu and her classmates at Cumberland Elementary School in West Lafayette, Sa…
By Erica Irish TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — In 2016, Jennifer Dawson said her worst fears as a parent came true. The Brookston mother …
By Shelby Mullis TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — All eyes of the Indiana House were on 16-year-old Addison Agen Thursday as she belted ou…
By John Ward TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — Fourth grader Kayla Xu has been lobbying for years to make the firefly Indiana’s state bug. …
Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – The head of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has announced that he is retiring from…
By Makenna Mays TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS – Festively decorated trees, all as different as snowflakes, are covering the halls of the …
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Staff Report TheStatehouseFile.com INDIANAPOLIS — Victoria Spartz became the state’s newest senator Wednesday after being sworn in to fill Se…
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