A soil scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana campus is reaching out to landowners and farmers, as he prepares to take soil samples at locations where samples were taken years ago across the state.
Marcus Domask scored 17 points for third-seeded Illinois.
West Point graduate Joshua Loyd, who won the Republican primary in the 13th Congressional District, is looking forward to challenging first-time Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski in November. Loyd, an entrepreneur residing in Virden at the border of Macoupin and Sangamon Counties, leads his primary opponent, Thomas Clatterbuck, by 12 percentage points with most precincts reporting. Speaking…
Dr. Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum, a professor at Illinois State University, an award-winning playwright, and a Queen Mother in Ghana, spent months in African slave dungeons to get a better understanding of her ancestors’ experiences. Her time there helped inspire her performance piece Walking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle coming to the Spurlock Museum in…
Joint program offers funds, tuition assistance and stipends for future alcohol and drug counselors.
The court says O’Connor died in Phoenix on Friday of complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness.
As world leaders gather at COP28, the annual climate change negotiations held in Dubai this year, one number will be front and center: 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s the amount countries have agreed to limit warming to by the end of the century. The world is already perilously close to that number. Since…
This story is a part of a Harvest Public Media series on carbon capture projects. Read about CO2 pipeline projects being proposed throughout the Midwest and how federal tax credits are helping launch the projects. When Andy Alexander moved into his grandparents’ farmhouse a few years ago, he knew he was moving in next to…
Illinois has remains belonging to about 13,000 individuals.
Police say a 9-year-old child was struck and killed Friday by a freight train in central Illinois as the youngster was apparently riding a bike to school.
The V-22B Osprey with 23 Marines on board crashed Sunday in tropical forest on Melville Island while taking part in a drill that includes the militaries of Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.
Casper was known to music and dance fans around the globe for the hugely popular line dance/song.
RANTOUL – Protesters marched on the streets of Rantoul to demand justice for two young black men, 21-year-old Azaan Lee and 18-year-old Jordan Richardson. Both were killed in separate police-involved shootings this year. On July 29, about 50 people gathered at Christopher Rudzinski Memorial Park and marched to and from the police station chanting the…
Jackson is 81 and has remained active in civil rights in recent years despite health setbacks.
State police say the bus was traveling westbound along Interstate 70 in Madison County when it crashed into the semis just before 2 a.m.