The primary draws to southern Illinois are the outdoor recreation activities in Shawnee National Forest, including hiking, ...

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Champaign County Fair Queen Sophia Hartke, back left, with Ford County Fair Queen Charley Ulrich and 2025 Miss Champaign ...

Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, ...

A geologist's vibrant maps reveal how the Mississippi River has wandered across its valley, making it look like a colorful, ...

"At a Trump rally in October, Stephen Miller, the administration’s architect of immigration policies, proclaimed: 'America is ...

Mississippi Today, in partnership with Rethink Mississippi (an initiative sponsored by the nonprofit Working Together ...

The heat wave in late June was extreme in both its intensity– especially nighttime temperatures– and its duration, breaking 14 daily high and 88 daily high minimum temperature records across ...

It is distributed to hundreds of print and broadcast outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press ...

In April and May, eight people in southern Illinois contracted measles. But with no new cases identified since May 22, ...

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SALEM — Troy Cannon, former coroner of Marion County in southern Illinois, has been charged with seven counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.