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Columbus-based CivicLab announced Wednesday the inaugural cohort for the Systemness Leadership Academy to advance systemness-centered strategies that empower experienced collaborative and systems leaders to approach and address complex social problems.

City officials have allocated additional funds for firefighter overtime as the Columbus Fire Department struggles with staffing shortages.

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. is working on a proposal for a capital referendum to potentially fund a number of facilities projects — including the construction of a new elementary school on the west side.

Exhibit Columbus’ fourth season of highlighting anew the city’s Modernist architectural legacy will kick off with a 450-seat, ticketed, awards-style gala Aug. 25 and a free outdoor street party called “Rock the Block” Aug. 26 downtown as the centerpiece celebrations.

A new private school has pushed its opening day back by about two weeks.

The mother of a toddler who was injured at Children Inc. says staff members there did not report anything had happened to her child on the day of the injury when she picked him up, telling her his day was “good.”

JENNINGS COUNTY — Mike Miller’s office walls are covered with unsightly 8-by-11 photos — a collage of trashed, burned-out trailers, junked campers, abandoned hoards and overgrown lots strewn with garbage.

A short film written by a local graduate will be shown at an upcoming festival celebrating students’ work.

The Bartholomew County Coroner’s office now has its own vehicle, something that had been requested from the county for some time.

A new chapter in the community’s generations-long romance with the aging Crump Theatre could soon be opened as officials say they are inching closer to reopening the 134-year-old icon of Columbus’ landscape to the public after being closed for nearly a decade due to safety hazards involving fire dangers and other concerns.