Speedway News

After four years of conceptual drawings, public forums and endless negotiations, the first physical work began last week on Speedway's ambitious redevelopment project.

Among the great things happening in and around Terre Haute to instill more pride in the community is the effort to seize upon the city's rich and colorful history and bring it front and center for all to see.

Speedway officials and residents will break ground and bread to celebrate the start of a long-awaited sewer project to relief flooding and other issues in the Gerrard-Allison neighborhood.

Westside motorists should stay alert for a series of changes in the traffic patterns in the heavily traveled Accelerate 465 construction zone this week.

After years of planning and talk, the first physical signs of Speedway's $500 million redevelopment project will begin with a groundbreaking Thursday.

The Marion County Health Department announced Wednesday more clinics to give free H1N1 vaccine to students.

Van Rooy Properties plans to spend $5.5 million renovating a 277-unit west side apartment complex that it acquired a month ago in an unusual deal.

State highway officials are warning motorists to stay alert for lane changes and shifting traffic patterns today and the next two weekends in the construction zone along several miles of the Westside leg of I-465. The changes over the next week will mark the opening of some new lanes and ramps at the Washington Street and 10th Street interchanges.

As a child, Jaci Shaw dressed up as Dorothy Gale from the 'The Wizard of Oz' four years in a row for Halloween.

Question: I think you might be missing the bigger picture with running the road course at Indy.

Public school students across Marion County will get H1N1 flu vaccinations Monday, beginning with the most vulnerable.

Along with IPS, elementary schools in Decatur, Pike, Perry, Wayne, Washington and Warren Townships, and Speedway Schools will be involved in the first of a series of clinics for school-aged children.

Police here arrested two men after a car chase that resulted in a crash. Jose Cazares and Alejandro Campos, both 18, were arrested after a chase that resulted in them crashing their vehicle and running on foot.

Many of the 200 people attending Wednesday night's Beech Grove City Council meeting on the budget applauded in favor of keeping public safety dispatch services in the city, rather than transferring them to Speedway-based dispatchers.

The Beech Grove City Council has approved an $8.5 million budget that provides funding for eight Beech Grove dispatchers through 2010.

A state representative wants to help Beech Grove keep its 911 dispatch services headquartered in the city.

The Old Speedway City Neighborhood Association will celebrate its 10th anniversary at 7 p.m. Nov.

Another one is gone. In one week, another national restaurant has closed in Kokomo.

Kroger is closing a three-decade-old store on the Westside that failed despite a nearly $2 million makeover seven years ago.

Imogene R. Brown Phillips, 92, Indianapolis, died at her residence Thursday, Oct.