Mitch Daniels News

Surveying the fiscal debris field following the end of the Indiana legislature's special session, Indiana research advocates console themselves with the fact that it could've been much worse.

Governor Mitch Daniels said the special legislative session, called to pass a budget bill for the state, was a benefit to Indiana taxpayers.

Indiana state budget passes Niki Kelly The Journal Gazette INDIANAPOLIS Indiana legislators dodged a state government shutdown Tuesday when they passed a $28.7 billion, two-year state budget that largely protects Hoosier schools during a severe economic recession.

Kevin Rader /Eyewitness News Indianapolis - The battle over the state budget continued Thursday with a new disagreement over the deadline.

With his wife, Keri, holding a Bible and his toddler son, Oscar, in the courtroom, Anderson attorney David Happe was sworn in as Madison County's newest judge during a brief ceremony on Wednesday.

Mitch Daniels has quickly signed into law a new two-year state budget that lawmakers approved just hours before the current spending plan was to expire.

INDIANAPOLIS Ai Gov. Mitch Daniels said Wednesday he is open to using tolls to fund the Ohio River bridges project, even though Indiana already has much of its money for construction in the bank.

Lawmakers passed a new two-year state budget with just hours to spare before the current spending plan was set to expire.

State lawmakers from the Indianapolis region said a plan to help the Capital Improvement Board, which operates the city's sporting venues, is a temporary fix, but Gov.

Reporting from Indianapolis and Denver - Across the country, state legislators and governors struggled Tuesday night to agree on spending cuts and tax hikes as they ran up against a midnight deadline to approve a budget.

Indiana's lawmakers passed a $27.8 billion two-year budget Tuesday that supporters touted as a triumph in a recession but critics said came at the expense of students in urban and rural districts.

Lieutenant Governor Becky Skillman presented a roadmap for continued growth in Indiana agriculture.

Reporting from Indianapolis and Denver -- The last time Indiana missed its deadline for passing a budget and had to shut down the government was during the Civil War.

Mitch Daniels for president? In 2012? It's all the buzz in the Statehouse hallways where Democrats and lobbyists speculate on the governor's true motives as the special session races toward the wall.

With just hours to go before the current budget runs out, Indiana lawmakers struggled last week to reach agreement on a spending plan.

MOSCOW, Ind. -- The covered bridge festival that runs through Sunday in this small Rush County town is missing something: a covered bridge.

With five days left before a possible government shutdown, the battle in the Indiana Legislature over the state's budget intensified this week.

A former state representative and once Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor told Indianapolis police that he was immune from arrest during an alleged drunken incident outside a gas station downtown early Friday morning.

Gov. Mitch Daniels would have no legal authority to continue operating most state government functions if lawmakers fail to pass a budget by Wednesday, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency.

Prisons in lockdown. State vendors going unpaid. Thousands of state employees on furlough.