The Springfield City Council is slated to vote Sept. 1 on extending the Springfield Police Department’s use of ShotSpotter, a ...

Hours after the social media giant Meta agreed last Wednesday to settle a case brought by 47 state attorneys general and ...

City officials said Friday afternoon a faulty pipe may have been the cause of the main water line break that shut down water ...

The Illinois Innocence Project at University of Illinois Springfield has freed 34 innocent people who were convicted and imprisoned in Illinois for crimes they did not commit. Collectively, they lost ...

As it is to the fifth-generation farmer on the homestead, the dirt at the oval track of the Springfield Mile is sacred ground to 40-year-old Jared Mees. He’s won the annual motorcycle race in the ...

New rules governing who can use electric bikes and scooters, including where and how fast they go, will go into effect next ...

A downtown Springfield business has been forced to postpone its grand opening plans after a water main break flooded the ...

Unwilling to wait on the Illinois General Assembly, the Sangamon County Board plans to vote as soon as Sept. 1 to impose a ...

Ron Dougan writes of a tripdown Turtle Creek; “Perhapsthe high point of my grandkids’visit was a canoe trip down TurtleCreek from the Shopiere Dam to Colley Road. The banks enclosedus, we were in ...

On Women’s Equality Day, Springfield residents joined one woman’s relay to Washington, D.C. to draw attention to the progress ...

Dr. Larry Golden, the founding director of IIP, was the youngest faculty member when he came to Sangamon State University when it opened in 1970. He became involved in social justice issues in the ...

As we roll on through the end of August, next weekend brings Labor Day and the unofficial finish to summer along for the ride. We will be falling into autumn soon enough, so let’s take a gander at ...