Miss Coles County Paige Schwindt's schedule included riding in the Sept. 6 Broom Corn Festival parade, volunteering at the ...

Takeaways from the White Sox’s winless series in Seattle, including an IL stint for Chase Meidroth ...

Neeson goes on the hunt for what amounts to a tech villain (who wants a machine in a safe deposit box that’s labeled P.L.O.T.

News Media Corp., an Illinois-based publisher, has announced the abrupt closure of dozens of newspapers across five states ...

An appeals court on Friday tossed out a judge’s contempt finding against the Trump administration in a case over deportations ...

The city has closed the beach at Lake Mattoon again until further notice due to a harmful algal bloom, which can release ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes a compelling case that a healthy lifestyle ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another ...

Oh how times have changed. Or have they? Take a glance at local stories from years past.

Coal isn’t disappearing. Its use globally hit a record last year. Since the turn of the century, coal demand has doubled.

Coal has been on the way out for a decade now. The industry’s future was considered mainly dead and buried — until the Trump ...