Indiana Government News

A central Indiana police officer has filed lawsuit against the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles , saying its decision to revoke his vanity license plate "0INK" was unconstitutional.

Ohio has 278 bridges similar to the one that collapsed on in Washington this week, sending cars and people into the water below.

The edict came down after a February investigation by The Indianapolis Star used just such documents to raise questions about a high-ranking transportation official who intervened in an Interstate 69 bridge project.

A Greenfield police corporal wants to keep a personalized Fraternal Order of Police plate that has adorned his personal vehicle since 2010 -- but that was recently revoked by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

The Alabama Department of Revenue, Administrative Law Division, found that a company's beer distribution rights did not qualify as goodwill under generally accepted accounting principles and, therefore, did not qualify for the goodwill exclusion under Alabama's business privilege tax.

Local state representatives should approve a House proposal to remove the front license plate requirement from Ohio's law books.

Schools all over the state encountered issues with the statewide testing when servers by the test provider, CTB/McGraw Hill, failed, kicking test-takers offline.

Indiana lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse for one day next month to possibly override Republican Gov.

Jim Shella of Ch. 8 is reporting: "Legislature will meet on June 12th to consider veto overrides." My question: "Is this is a first under the statute that allows GA to meet post-session without Gov calling a special session?" [More] Here is the Concurrent Resolution fixing the date for the first regular technical session of the One Hundred ... (more)

Officials with the Ohio Department of Transportation have taken the next step to raise the speed limit on interstates within the Buckeye State.

Gas station owners who jack up the price you pay for gasoline just before every weekend and important holidays now want to make it easier to buy ready to drink alcohol at thousands of additional locations.

The Commissioners granted approval to continue with the dirt giveaway on Saturdays from 8 a.m. till 1 p.m. throughout June.

Indiana is pressing ahead with its search for a company to build a 21-mile section of the Interstate 69 extension under a public-private deal that calls for a contractor to line up its own financing to design and build the highway segment, state officials said Wednesday.

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana was ranked as the most competitive state for business in the Midwest and the second best nationwide in Site Selection magazine's Top 10 Competitive States of 2012.

The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.

In response to a class-action lawsuit that alleged the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles overcharged as many as 4 million Hoosiers since 2007, the BMV admitted in a May 15 filing "it may have inadvertently overcharged" drivers.

Speedsters, mark your calendars: July 1 is the day you can legally drive 70 mph on much of the state's Interstate highway system, thanks to a change in state law OK'd earlier this year and set to take effect this summer.

A tornado watch has been issued for several counties in central and western Indiana.

Construction crews are busy this month reinforcing ground anchors along 80 miles of Interstate 65 through Bartholomew and neighboring counties to boost the stress that wire guardrails installed in the highway median can withstand.

That amounted to the largest one-month decrease in the unemployment rate in more than one year.