KOKOMO — Governor Eric Holcomb has announced a significant investment by a European automaker in its Howard County manufacturing operations. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. says Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plans to invest nearly $400 million to expand and retool one of its Kokomo transmission plants for the production of a new engine. The new production …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Pence is directing flags at state facilities statewide be flown at half-staff to honor former Gov. Edgar D. Whitcomb, who passed away Thursday, Feb. 4. Flags should be flown at half-staff for seven days from his passing, through Thursday, Feb. 11. Pence also asks businesses and residents to lower their flags …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Office of Gov. Mike Pence issued the following photos, after being informed by members of the immediate family of Gov. Edgar D. Whitcomb that the former governor passed away on Thursday, Feb. 4 at his home in Rome. Eric Holcomb, a candidate for United States Senate, issued this statement following news that …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Department of Transportation announced the agency’s 2015 construction season resulted in an investment of more than $1 billion in state and local road, bridge, trail and traffic safety projects. The mix of federal and state transportation funding along with funds from Gov. Mike Pence’s Major Moves 2020 program allowed INDOT to …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Pence today, Monday, Jan. 4, announced his legislative agenda for the upcoming session of the Indiana General Assembly, which commences tomorrow, Jan. 5. “Our 2016 legislative agenda puts jobs, roads, education, and health care at the forefront of this session of the Indiana General Assembly, right where they belong,” said Pence. …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mike Pence today, Dec. 29, issued the following year-end message, outlining the accomplishments of 2015 and looking forward to the year ahead. Accompanying the message is an info-graphic entitled “Making Indiana Work: A 2015 Progress Report.” My Fellow Hoosiers, As 2015 comes to a close and we look back on the year …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Pence today announced the creation of the Governor’s Task Force on Drug Enforcement, Treatment, and Prevention, an effort by his administration to combat drug abuse in Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Pence has requested federal grants for government and certain non-profit organizations in 19 counties for severe storms and flooding, which occurred between June 7-July 29. Fulton, Marshall and Wabash counties are among the counties specified.

INDIANAPOLIS — Due to massive rainfall this summer, Kosciusko County, among 52 other Indiana counties, was approved for a secretarial disaster declaration as requested by Gov. Mike Pence, Lt. Governor Sue Ellspermann, and Indiana Farm Service Agency Executive Director Julia A. Wickard.

FORT WAYNE — Governor Mike Pence will visit Fort Wayne today, where he will be signing a service members civil relief act and voluntary veterans preference employment act at the Air National Guard Station. He will also hold a community conversation at 3:30 p.m. at Ivy Tech Community College and then visit with fairgoers at …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS — Today, Gov. Mike Pence ceremonially signed two bills: broadband ready communities (HEA 1101), which aims to facilitate more investment in broadband infrastructure to support access for Hoosiers across our state, and taxation of Internet access (SEA 80), which prohibits government from collecting a tax on Internet access or use.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s unemployment rate decreased 0.2 percent to 4.9 percent in June due mostly to a 2,200 worker increase in the labor force and a sizeable decrease in the number of unemployed Hoosiers. June marked the first month since February of 2008 the rate of unemployment in the Hoosier State has been below 5 …read more.

INDIANAPOLIS —Gov. Mike Pence joined State Auditor Suzanne Crouch today to discuss the state’s fiscal condition following the close of Fiscal Year 2015. They released the State’s 2015 Closeout Report, which highlights Indiana’s accomplishments in the last two years under the 2013 biennial budget and demonstrates Indiana’s sound fiscal health. The report shows the State …read more.

The Hoosier State is nearing record-level private sector employment, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics released data today, June 19, by the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. “The Indiana economy continues regional leadership in job creation, which emboldens our economic development efforts,” said Victor Smith, Indiana Secretary of Commerce. “We are telling Indiana’s …read more.