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Indiana is among states to receive federal funding to fight the opioid epidemic; The U.S Senate overwhelmingly passed the Opioid Crisis Response Act on Monday; Soldiers from the Indiana Army National Guard are helping rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina; The metal fish that tops the Monroe County Courthouse will soon have a name; The Bloomington City Council approved significant and long term …

The Bloomington City Council approved significant and long term changes in downtown parking and neighborhood zones, in its meeting Wednesday. The base parking fines will be raised from $20 dollars to $30. Instead of the current three hours of free parking now available in city lots, parkers will only get one hour free. The changes are based on an analysis …

Jim Blickensdorf is a downtown Bloomington business owner, who admits he was at first skeptical of the metered parking. Blickensdorf recently chaired the first Bloomington Parking Commission and, as he tells WFHB News Director Wes Martin, his views have definitely changed. Blickensdorf talks about the Commission’s first annual report, its findings, and where we go from here, on today’s WFHB …

An unusually large group of local government officials are meeting tomorrow to decide whether Monroe County will keep its new public safety income tax; During the past several weeks, local government entities have begun planning for how to spend the new public safety tax money, with the assumption that it will be renewed at tomorrow’s meeting; Some drivers in downtown Bloomington are learning …