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Bloomington Transit is weighing service changes after a year-long ridership slide, reflected in a 16% drop in fixed-route ridership early in 2026. Plans include deploying new articulated buses on campus routes, merging Route 13 with Route 3, and expanding microtransit options.

Monroe County sheriff Ruben Marté has sued Indiana AG Todd Rokita in federal court, seeking to block a new state law requiring local jails to honor ICE detainer requests. The lawsuit says the new law would force deputies to violate the Fourth Amendment by detaining people without warrants.

Monroe County commissioners voted on Wednesday to authorize board president Julie Thomas to sign a possible extension of the county’s long-running settlement agreement with the ACLU over jail conditions, as talks continue ahead of the agreement’s April 15 expiration.

Bloomington Transit is moving ahead with the purchase of property at Curry Pike and Profile Parkway for a future operations center. A $3.6M appraisal has been accepted by the owner. Environmental concerns from a history of PCBs are expected to be addressed in part by a "comfort letter" from the IFA.

Early voting for the May 5 primary began Tuesday morning at Monroe County’s lone early voting site, the North Showers building in downtown Bloomington. A controversy over the placement of campaign signs came to the surface when Bloomington officials objected.

Around 10:30 p.m. Monday, Bloomington police arrested a 37-year-old woman after an hours-long standoff at a home on South Rockport Road. Police say she chased a man from the house with kitchen knives and barricaded herself inside before officers eventually took her into custody.

Bloomington’s RDC approved transferring convention-center parking parcels to the Monroe County capital improvement board to support a planned host hotel for the convention center expansion. The land will revert to the city if it is not used for convention-center-related purposes.