Perhaps hundreds of Indiana’s roughly 1,000 township governments including 12 in Jackson County could face consolidation ...

There are nearly 1,000 townships across the state. Under this legislation, townships that aren't meeting several performance ...

Across the state's nearly 1,000 township governments, township employees and elected officials are earning more from ...

Expect lots of key votes today as lawmakers sprint to wrap up the 2026 legislative session at the end of this week.

Senate Bill 270 passed in a 61-35 vote, and it requires the DLGF to compile data on each Indiana township, except those in Marion County.

An Indiana House committee has endorsed a plan to consolidate hundreds of Indiana's 1,000+ township governments, which would ...

A decades-long debate over the efficiency of Indiana’s local government reached a potential turning point Tuesday as a House committee endorsed a ...

Two Republican-led bills that would substantially reduce the number of townships using different methods, while not outright deleting them, have been filed.

Indiana has more than 1,000 townships, which are represented by an elected township trustee and elected township board. The elected officials and their staff are charged with doling out poor relief, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds of Indiana township governments could be forced into consolidation under a renewed attempt in the Legislature for streamlining the 1,000-plus such bodies across the state. A ...