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Fort Wayne-based health technology startup Xillum says it has raised a $1.1 million seed round of investment. ... Read More

Two student-led startups at Indiana University have been selected to benefit from the Shoebox Fund, an investment fund that supports student innovation at IU... Read More

The town of St. John is looking to create a riverfront district designation. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report the proposed district would be located in the town's main commercial district from 109th Avenue to 96th Avenue.... Read More

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $340 million contract to Roche Diagnostics in Indianapolis. The contract calls for the production of COVID-19 rapid antigen tests for the U.S. Army.... Read More

A northern Indiana county is looking to spend some of its federal COVID-19 relief money to open a county morgue.... Read More

In his State of the State address last week, Governor Eric Holcomb touted the state’s low unemployment, a big and blooming budget surplus and record economic development numbers in a speech Ball State economist Mike Hicks believes reflects an economy that is keeping pace with the nation’s recovery from the pandemic. ... Read More

Spiceland-based Draper Inc. has announced the sale of its Swedish subsidiary. The company says Draper Europe AB, which manufactures projection screens, awnings and window coverings, will now operate under the ownership of its current management team.... Read More

Sony DADC is cutting about 100 workers at a western Indiana plant that began cranking out compact discs in the 1980s and will move all the plant's gaming and disc manufacturing to Austria.... Read More

Economic development officials in La Porte have launched a new program to help job seekers who are struggling with childcare... Read More

AgriNovus Indiana Chief Executive Officer Mitch Frazier says over the past two years, the entire world focused on the food supply chain as it faced multiple challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic... Read More

Purdue University Fort Wayne is investing nearly $1 million, including a $500,000 gift from the Don Wood Foundation, to update robotic and manufacturing technology in its school of polytechnic. The university says its a "transformational opportunity" that will help increase its graduates who join the fields of robotics, advanced manufacturing, and machining.... Read More

White Construction, a subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives Inc. (Nasdaq: IEA), has secured a $75 million contract with Chicago-based Invenergy to construct a wind farm. IEA says the Sapphire Sky Wind Project is a 250-megawatt utility-scale wind farm in McLean County, Illinois.... Read More

Ascension-St. Vincent says new additions at its Indianapolis campus means the hospital can now handle any emergency patient regardless of age or injury. The health system recently opened a new burn center for both adult and pediatric patients on the same day it opened a new pediatric trauma center at...... Read More

New analysis from real estate listings website Realtor.com shows the Indianapolis real estate market is in for a “whirlwind” year for homebuyers and sellers in 2022... Read More

Indianapolis-based venture firm SAW Capital, which operates Safeway Supermarkets and other businesses, is now an employee-owned company with a new name. The new Employee Stock Ownership Plan company, SAW Ventures Inc. and its divisions, will be led by President Leslie Exendine.... Read More

Fishers-based American Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: AREC) has announced a partnership between its subsidiary, American Rare Earth LLC, and HG Ventures LLC, the venture capital investment arm of Indianapolis-based The Heritage Group. The company says the effort will put the partners on the path to becoming the first and lowest-cost producer of domestically-sourced, purified and sustainable battery and magnet metals.... Read More

Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries Inc. (NYSE: PPG) has notified the state it intends to close its plant in Lafayette this fall, leaving 54 workers without jobs... Read More

Two startups founded by Purdue University alumni have each received $100,000 from the Purdue Ag-Celerator fund. The university says Insignum AgTech and Verility Inc. will use the funding to commercialize and scale their agricultural ventures.... Read More

A new IU Health hospital could be coming to Fort Wayne, but some people are not happy about where it would go.... Read More

A fourth-generation farmer and his wife from LaPorte County were just named winners of the Young Farmers & Ranchers Achievement Award competition at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s National Convention in Atlanta. ... Read More