A Marion man has received the Outstanding Achievement in Workforce and Labor award from Illinois State Treasurer Michael ...

With the score tied and disappointment just 2:07 away the Marion boys basketball team dug deep and held off Mount Vernon to beat the Rams, 39-36, to win its first South Seven Conference championship ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the risk of an outbreak of the bird flu in humans is low, although Illinois’ health department is preparing for the possibility. On Friday, ...

After almost handing the South Seven Conference title to Mount Vernon with a double-overtime loss on the road, the Marion boys basketball team beat 25-win Centralia, 70-60, Friday night at Virgil ...

Jerry Eldon Rich, 89, of Shiloh, born on Jan. 13, 1936, in Eichorn, Ill., passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Feb. 3, 2025. Services were held at Kassly Mortuary in Fairview ...

The impending closure of a University of Illinois soybean research lab due to federal funding cuts could impede the study of a fungal disease that experts say would decimate the crop if it makes its ...

Foster care officials will have to prioritize placing children with their relatives under a new law signed by Gov. JB Pritzker last week Pritzker signed the Kinship in Demand Act, or KIND Act, at a ...

Farms are growing while providing fresh, local food to underserved communities through the Illinois Equitable Access Towards Sustainable Systems (IL-EATS) grant program. Participants in IL-EATS ...