State and Local News

Volunteers are needed to help with Kokomo’s upcoming Strawberry Festival on June first, being put on the Greater Kokomo Downtown Association. To sign up as a volunteer for the Strawberry ...Read more

Indiana University-Kokomo is one of ten campuses nationwide that has been chosen to develop online civic literacy programs, to prepare students to combat digital polarization and fake news. The ...Read more

Due to severe overcrowding, the Muncie Animal Care & Services will be offering 20-dollar pet adoptions starting today and continuing through the end of May. Shelter officials say they get high ...Read more

A series of community sing-along programs will kick off a full year of such events as a way of promoting peace. The first sing-along is this Sunday at 2 p-m at Friends Memorial Church on West Adams ...Read more

Indiana-Michigan Power Company officials say they’ve received reports of a scam that targets I & M customers in the Muncie and Marion areas. A spokesman says callers claiming to be from I ...Read more

The Grant County Council last night approved filling a position in the Grant County Sheriff’s Department after state money was found to help pay for the position. The Council okayed the hiring of ...Read more

The sixth annual Marion Community Schools Kindness Rally is set for Friday evening, celebrating the power that kindness has to change the world. The Kindness Rally will take place at the Bill Green ...Read more

Ball State University’s takeover of Muncie Community Schools already has already raised nearly three-million dollars in community support for the financially strapped school system. Ball ...Read more

The number of children in Indiana’s welfare system is nearly double what it was just 5 years ago. The Villages of Indiana is Indiana’s largest not-for-profit child and family services ...Read more

This Saturday will be another Free Fishing Day in Indiana. This Saturday, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources will offer free fishing at all public waters in the state…meaning you ...Read more