CAIRO, Ill. (KFVS) - Musicians entertained crowds at the Smooth Jazz Festival in Cairo, Illinois, on Sunday. The event features five jazz acts, arts, crafts, and food vendors. The festival took place ...

Arrowleaf, alongside community stakeholders, announced the grand opening of the Cairo African American Heritage Trail Welcome Area. The event will take place on Thursday, August 29, ...

Arrowleaf has received a $7,500 grant from the Alpha Gamma Delta Foundation to boost its food pantries in Vienna and Cairo, ...

Downstate Illinois Sen. Dale Fowler’s leadership is rooted in a commitment to service and an insistence on civility.

Cairo leaders hope the addition of a new Heritage Trail will bring more awareness about the lived experience of Cairo’s black ...

There’s continued evidence that we may once again experience some low water conditions on the lower Mississippi River this fall. The prospects for restricted barge transportation this fall may come ...

On Thursday, 23-year-old Daurice T. Morse, of Cairo, IL, was found guilty of the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Jacob Gary of Cape Girardeau.

CAIRO — Community leaders, historians and visitors from across the region gathered in Cairo this weekend for a Confluences conference, a single day-long event meant to inform and celebrate the ...

Four of the members — Mary McCollum, James Peake, Joy Reagon and Lewis — answered a call from Cairo, Illinois, to join young African Americans trying to end segregation in the city nestled in ...

Ferne Clyffe State Park doesn’t attract as much notice as other natural havens in Illinois, says Site Superintendent Jay Massey. “Starved Rock gets closed ...

It was a bitterly cold evening on Jan. 19, 1997, when Judy Stegle and her husband, Mike, received the call that would upend their lives forever.