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The Purdue University Board of Trustees took a key step at its meeting Wednesday toward giving up ownership of its NPR member station, WBAA. The university announced last week it intends to transfer ownership of WBAA to the public media group that manages Indianapolis NPR and PBS station WFYI.

Indiana lawmakers will study topics in the coming weeks that include human trafficking, a racial achievement gap in K-12 schools and unemployment benefits for gig economy workers.

Last month, rain drenched central Indiana with higher-than-average rainfall amounts, putting June 2021 onto the list of Indianapolis’s wettest recorded months since 1871.

The Indiana Department of Health’s latest numbers showed 13,466 total confirmed deaths and 756,070 positive cases since the pandemic began.

While COVID infection rates have decreased and stabilized this summer – IU Health officials and experts with the Fairbanks School of Public Health say variants of the virus could be the leading cause of increased cases this fall and winter.

Purdue University trustees will take up a request Wednesday to give up ownership of WBAA, the NPR member station in West Lafayette.

Indiana University is developing free virtual K-12 courses for teachers and students to use across the state as part of a grant-funded effort by education experts to build up the quality and understanding of virtual education.

IndyCar plans to keep making stops at Road America, announcing a multi-year extension Tuesday that keeps the Wisconsin road course on the annual schedule of the open-wheel racing series.

Employees must be two weeks past their final COVID vaccination and submit proof of inoculation to their supervisors in order to remove masks inside, according to a staff memo sent out Monday.

Hoosier citizen advocacy groups want U.S. Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) to vote for the federal voting reform bill known as the “For The People Act.”