The president and chief executive officer of the Indiana Restaurant & Lodging Association says the hotel industry will continue towards recovery this year, but full recovery is still several years away. ... Read More
Indiana lawmakers are moving forward with a series of contentious Republican-backed bills that they say would increase transparency of K-12 school curricula and restrict students from accessing “harmful materials” at libraries.... Read More
Center Grove Community School Corp. in Greenwood will Thursday cut the ribbon on the new Center Grove Emergency Operations Center. The district says the center facilitates collaboration to increase public safety for its schools and the surrounding community.... Read More
Last month, Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing Co. announced plans to open a new tap room at The Mill at Ironworks Plaza in Mishawaka. Flaherty & Collins Properties, which operates the mixed-use project, says Sun King will now have a larger footprint on the property.... Read More
Michigan City-based Horizon Bancorp Inc. (Nasdaq: HNBC) is reporting full-year net income of $87.1 million in 2021, up from $68.5 million the previous year. The parent of Horizon Bank also announced Wednesday that President Jim Neff plans to retire at the end of March.... Read More
Organizers of the West Lafayette Smart City Challenge have awarded a total of $15,000 to three finalists, including two from Purdue University. According to Purdue, the winning teams proposed IoT solutions or software applications to improve safety for road users who navigate high-traffic corridors and intersections during major seasonal events.... Read More
A federal appeals court is letting Indiana University keep its COVID-19 vaccination requirement for students in place, dealing another legal blow to a lawsuit challenging it.... Read More
Purdue University Northwest alumnus David Roberts and wife Susan Roberts have donated $3 million for a planned Impact Lab. The university says the Roberts Impact Lab at PNW will be a workspace for entrepreneurship, innovation and education collaboration.... Read More
The city of New Albany is planning to begin the next phase of its Main Street Revitalization Project this summer. The city says the $3 million project will replace deteriorated pavements and sidewalks, improve walkability, and increase multi-model accessibility of the Main Street corridor.... Read More
A coworking space in Bloomington is preparing for the second cohort of its remote worker attraction program. The Mill says Bloomington Remote, which launched last June, has brought people from all over North America to the Monroe County city and there are no plans to slow down. ... Read More
Indianapolis-based Hopebridge Autism Therapy Centers says it plans to hire 4,000 new employees nationally as the company prepares to open 40 new centers. ... Read More
A project by students at Manchester Junior-Senior High School has been selected for a trip into space as part of NASA’s “TechRise Student Challenge.... Read More
Goshen College will launch a new program in the fall of 2022 that the school says will increase college access and affordability for Indiana students. ... Read More
Fishers-based Project CSI is one of two companies to be acquired by Marmon Retail Solutions in Chicago. Financial terms of the deal, which also includes Big Red Rooster Flow in Illinois, were not disclosed.... Read More
Indianapolis-based Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) is reporting full-year net income of $6.1 billion, up from $4.6 billion in 2020. The company says growth was fueled by increasing medical enrollment from government business, primarily driven by organic growth in the Medicaid business.... Read More
The city of Noblesville has appointed Maranda Taylor as its new economic development manager. In the newly-created position, Taylor will focus on attracting companies and partners to the city.... Read More
As the U.S. approaches its third year of economic uncertainty because of the pandemic, the senior associate dean at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University says China’s response to the latest COVID variant could have lingering impacts on the supply chain... Read More
Iowa-based Hy-Vee Inc. is detailing plans for its first Indiana grocery store. The company says it will open the 150,000-square-foot location in Zionsville.... Read More
The Indianapolis Colts organization says it will sponsor ten under-resourced high school football programs around Indiana. The team says the effort will provide the programs with access to new coaching education, player development and fundraising resources.... Read More
Fishers-based Vibenomics has selected Jenny Quinnette to serve as its first chief financial officer. Quinnette previously served as senior vice president of finance for the Audio Out-of-Home advertising company.... Read More
