A new downtown vision
With its current strategic plan for downtown essentially fulfilled, Columbus stakeholders are embarking on a new effort to identify what improvements and new initiatives...
Crews rescue 4 from blaze
Staff Reports
The 15 people displaced by a fire at Quail Run Apartments building won’t be able to return to their homes for days, the...
Local shortage has spread to all job sectors
A labor shortage in Bartholomew County that has been affecting local industrial employers has spread.
Every business in every sector is now struggling to find...
Workforce development: State, local leaders get primer on city’s efforts
A 45-member delegation including Indiana’s governor, state officials and lawmakers received a one-day tutorial on Columbus’ efforts to align its educational system to workforce...
Olympians cruise past Madison
Five of the six Columbus East senior boys basketball players had a chance to start on senior night Friday, and they made the most...
Flu factor in girl’s death
Complications of an influenza B infection has been ruled the cause of death for a 7-year-old Columbus girl.
First-grader Savanna Jessie had been healthy until...
Massacre at Florida high school on minds of Bartholomew County students
School safety was on the minds of Bartholomew County students Thursday, a day after 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland,...
Quail Run apartment fire in Columbus displaces 15; 4 rescued
COLUMBUS, Indiana -- It will be days before any of the 15 displaced tenants in a Quail Run Apartments building damaged by fire will be...
Good morning Columbus. What you need to know — a scrum with the governor,...
Greetings Columbus --
The governor is in town today, and we'll be in a "scrum" with him about 2:30 p.m.
No, that's not a word coming...
Pence in Texas for tour of border, fundraisers
Staff report from The Monitor (McAllen, Texas)
Vice President Mike Pence landed at McAllen-Miller International Airport Friday afternoon.
Pence is expected to tour the U.S.-Mexico border...
