Gov. Mike Pence's new Statehouse desk was mostly empty Monday -- except for some family photos and an intriguing old red rotary-dial telephone.

The Indiana Society of Washington, D.C., will have its inaugural ball on Jan. 20 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in the nation's capital.

She was technically sworn in Dec. 12 -- the day the election returns were certified -- by an elections division attorney at her school, surrounded by her students.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd, will have an open house Thursday in Kendallville.

Former Indianapolis Colts punter Hunter Smith will provide entertainment at Gov.-elect Mike Pence's upcoming inaugural praise and worship service.

Indiana Legislative Insight, a weekly newsletter on government and politics, points out that Indiana is represented for the first time in more than a century by two U.S. senators who were born outside the state.

Sens. Dan Coats, R-Ind., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., have made a friendly wager on the outcome of the BCS college football title game Monday night between the universities of Notre Dame and Alabama.

An Indiana company supplied the full-size image of the U.S. Supreme Court building that has been used as a facade wrap during renovations at the Washington, D.C., landmark.

The next senator to occupy 306 Hart Senate Office Building will be just the second. It has been the office of Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., whose Senate career ended with Thursday’s swearing-in ceremony for new senators.

The news organization Politico has named Sen.-elect Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., as one of “13 people to watch in politics in 2013.”

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been named a senior transatlantic fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Down the stretch, Sen.-elect Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., apparently got more bang for his fundraising buck than Republican foe Richard Mourdock did.

Gov. Mitch Daniels will take a final trip in RV-1 - the motorhome he made famous during his 2004 run after driving it thousands of miles around the state to every county multiple times.