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Let me come clean fight away: I'm a gambler. And there's not much I enjoy more than a long weekend in Las Vegas. But since moving to Indianapolis almost a [...]

At least two large Indianapolis not-for-profits have been investigated--and cleared--as part of an Internal Revenue Service examination of compensation practices at tax-exempt organizations. Preliminary results of the nationwide inquiry aren't [...]

The battle for control of Conner Prairie and its multimillion-dollar endowment may well end up in the one place its trustee has taken extraordinary steps to avoid--court. More than seven [...]

It's make or break time for Community Centers of Indianapolis. As leaders of the not-for-profit agency look for money to meet payroll, pay overdue bills and make a dent in [...]

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is The Racing Capital of the World--and it has the federal trademark to prove it. Such legal protection is all but required in the corporate world, where [...]

In the simplest terms, Dave Mueller is a bug guy. He studied entomology and environmental science at Purdue, then moved to central Indiana to launch two companies: commercial pest-control provider [...]

Growing demand for high-end, low-maintenance living is fueling an apartment-building boom in Indianapolis' northern suburbs--and raising concerns among some leaders about the risks of adding too much too fast. About [...]

Explosive growth gobbling up farmland throughout the southern half of Hamilton County hasn't reached Sheridan, but town leaders are preparing for the inevitable onslaught. Improving U.S. 31 to interstate standards [...]

Hamilton County might soon join the growing ranks of large utility users looking to hedge against rising priees by producing some of their own power. County eommissioners are working with [...]

If you ask the experts about the most important issues confronting educators, one word comes up time and again: Money. From public allocations to private contributions, teacher salaries to program [...]

Stompin Barley opened on River Road in Carmel in February 2017, a month after a Devour Indy dining event promoting more than 200 local restaurants. One of the first orders [...]

When a phone rings at Connect2Help this time of year-as it does more than 1,000 times a day odds are the caller will be asking about energy-assistance programs or looking [...]

Outside Fishers Town Hall, crews are clearing land for The Depot at Nickel Plate, a $42 million mixed-use project officials hope will launch a wave of redevelopment downtown. Inside, leaders [...]

Michael Bogan planned to propose on Valentine's Day at the Eiffel Tower. Instead, he and girlfriend Erin Evans rented a house in Michigan and spent their vacation sewing 100 Promise [...]

Three years after budget cuts threatened the state-run Indiana Artisan program, the newly independent organization is moving ahead with ambitious plans to broaden its reach. The economic development initiative this [...]

Amanda Taflinger had a vision nd the discipline to keep it in focus. What she didn't have was the business expertise needed to get her contemporary crafts boutique off the [...]

The ignorance of youth made Scott Wise look smart. Wise was an eager but inexperienced 22-year-old when he opened his first restaurant in Muncie with financial backing from his father, [...]

In August 1859, scientific adventurer John Wise left Lafayette at the helm of a gas-filled balloon bound for New York City with the nation's first air-mail delivery. An ill wind [...]

Since its origins as the Widows and Orphans Asylum in 1851, the Children's Bureau has been working to fix broken families in Indianapolis. Now the local not-for-profit has expanded its [...]

Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert has his work cut out for him. Never mind the Herculean task of leading the state's largest college system in a difficult economic climate; [...]

Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter will finally get a full accounting of the public charitable trust at the heart of Conner Prairie--more than 18 months after he asked a court [...]

Indiana's decades-long effort to protect shrinking school corporations from drastic cutbacks may well backfire on the very districts that most depend on it--including Indianapolis Public Schools. Critics say the promise [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Kim Allison wants people to think of one thing when they see her: Indianapolis. So she makes the rounds, on and off the clock, creating that connection. [...]

It's an improbable story: the little ad shop that could--and did. But Indianapolis-based Young & Laramore needed more than the 'I think I can' mantra of bedtime stories to make [...]

State tourism efforts have been in limbo almost two years. When legislators voted to dismantle the Indiana Department of Commerce in 2003, they left the fate of its tourism office [...]

Humane Society of Indianapolis saved itself in 2004. Poised on the brink of financial disaster, agency leaders came up with a deceptively simple recovery plan: Spend less, raise more and [...]

Patty Jischke has a Purdue University Web page that introduces her to the world, an assistant who keeps her official life in order, and a calendar that reads like an [...]

Tracy Elliott never wanted to climb the corporate ladder. Fresh out of college in the early 1980s, he went to work at a private school--teaching, counseling, coaching and eventually raising [...]

They arrived in spurts, toting signs and flags and a couple of yellow roses. It took some time, but the mass of humanity representing Indianapolis' hospitality community came to order [...]

Conner Prairie's financial history is chronicled in a 3-inch stack of audit reports delivered to the state's top lawyer May 20--months after museum trustee Earlham College submitted other records spanning [...]

Talk about high stakes. By the end of 2006, Humane Society of Indianapolis must more than double its annual fund-raising revenue and build a base of supporters who can keep [...]

Humane Society of Indianapolis has been through 'the bowels of hell' in the past three years--beginning its descent amid intense public criticism in 2001 and bottoming out last year when [...]

From the time animals arrive at the Humane Society of Indianapolis, the goal is to send them home. That can be harder than it sounds. The shelter's open-acceptance policy means [...]

The phone calls come almost every day. One person is distraught about a dog left at an abandoned house in Zionsville. Another reports a squirrel trapped in overhead power lines. [...]

The Humane Society of Indianapolis seeks salvation each year for thousands of unwanted pets. Some don't make it. That's a fact of life--or death--in a shelter that accepts all animals [...]

For nearly seven months. J. Mark Mutz logged hundreds of hours poring over thousands of records spanning four decades. And the Indianapolis consultant still isn't sure how Earlham College handled [...]

The vote came quickly, with a chorus of ayes and no discussion. In less time than it look to hang up coats and find seats, neighborhood center leaders voted Feb. [...]

Ivy Tech State College wants to help plant the seeds for central Indiana's growing life sciences industry. Plans are under way to offer an associate's degree in biotechnology as soon [...]

Almost a half-million people pour into Indianapolis for the Indiana State Fair each summer, and the local economy soaks up nearly $20 million as a result. But the big event [...]

Bill Tellman had a vision of his professional future while still a student at the local Indiana University School of Dentistry: his own practice in up-and-coming Castleton. In his case, [...]

Spiraling health care costs may be capturing the attention of employers nationwide, but another workplace expense is gaining ground far from most firms' radar screens. U.S. companies lose billions of [...]

As if the question of how to expand the landlocked Indiana Convention Center weren't hard enough, a committee studying the issue has been temporarily sidetracked by a separate look at [...]

Conner Prairie wanted to be free. For three long years, museum leaders have worked to negotiate a declaration of independence from Earlham College, the keeper of the facility for nearly [...]

As many companies learned in the red-hot '90s, employee expectations can run the gamut--from sign-on bonuses to stock options, cafeteria-style benefits to casual dress, ongoing training to on-site massage. But [...]

This time last year, Noblesville residents were still adjusting to the idea that their daily hometown newspaper was arriving just twice a week. The 114-year-old Daily Ledger scaled back publication [...]

It sounds like an oxymoron, but the fact remains: New historical areas have blown fresh air through the dust at Conner Prairie. Nearly five years after the Hamilton County living [...]

For decades, students at Indiana University in Bloomington have had the freedom to major in topics ranging from entrepreneurial brewing to interactive screenwriting and video game design. Now their counterparts [...]

If what goes up must come down, it was bound to happen. Indiana exports declined in 2001, falling 6.6 percent from a record $15.4 billion in 2000. It was the [...]

Carol D'Amico is not worried about coming down with Potomac Fever. After spending most of her 49 years in Indiana, she has no intention of spending the rest of her [...]

The Storm Troopers are coming! The Storm Troopers are coming! Whether they're clad in character costumes or boring old convention attire, one thing is certain: Thousands of 'Star Wars' fans [...]