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Last year’s Indianapolis 500 winner and one of IndyCar’s most dependable forces, Alex Palou proves that patience and precision win championships.

Speculation abounds about Andrea Hunley’s decision not to seek a second term in the Indiana State Senate. Her passionate vision for leadership leaves the doors open for more.

Resistance training has long been recommended for health reasons, but a new wave of passionate female powerlifters say the sport has benefits that extend well beyond fitness.

Vera Bradley bags were a Midwestern status symbol throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. But changing tastes—and a shifting retail industry—have put the Fort Wayne company on shakier ground.

For three decades, Indiana’s most disturbing serial killer flew under the true crime radar. In 1996, at least a dozen bodies were found at a Westfield estate belonging to wealthy businessman Herb Baumeister, but it wasn’t until recently that efforts to identify the victims went into high gear.

Joshua Hull is scaring up a career in the horror genre, one creepy story at a time.

Two Indianapolis podcasters who spent years reporting on the Delphi murders witnessed the benefits of the true crime community’s hive mind—but they also saw where the trend goes horribly wrong. The authors of the just-released book Shadow of the Bridge recall one of the case’s darkest chapters.

The founder of Queer Circle City is doubling down on the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights.

IndyCar’s hottest young driver tries to show the world, and himself, who he really is.

In Everything Is Tuberculosis, the king of quirky, tearjerking storytelling takes on a real-life epidemic, proving that fact is more heartbreaking than fiction.