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The Columbus WestRock packaging container plant that employs about 100 people is scheduled to cease production in October, closing a factory that has been a major employer in the community for about 55 years.

Columbus City Utilities is planning a solar project at its wastewater plant with an estimated price tag of $2.3 million, though a tax credit is expected to lower the cost by around 30%.

Accelera by Cummins said Tuesday that its products are powering the first green hydrogen passenger train in North America.

A federal judge has set a sentencing date for a former Columbus resident who pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Local food pantries are seeing an increase in the number of Bartholomew County residents turning to them for help with groceries this year as inflation continues to drive up prices and squeeze budgets.

Columbus Fire Department investigators are investigating the cause of a California Street fire that destroyed a single family home Monday morning.

Columbus police officers arrested three people after observing suspicious activity at a Columbus home on Saturday evening.

NORTH VERNON — A 48-year-old Columbus man has been arrested in a sting operation in Jennings County after he allegedly arranged to meet for sex with someone who had posed as a 13-year-old girl, authorities said.

When Frank Woodruff Buckles died at the age of 110, he was regarded as the last living American Doughboy of World War I.

The Bartholomew County Sheriff Department will use an online, legal-based guideline system approved by the county commissioners Monday to help reduce litigation filed against the department.