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No residents were injured in a house fire on South Oak Street, though several pets were lost.

This weekly updated Spotify playlist is a comprehensive array of the broad new music that has landed on Highway 309.

The Illinois National Guard held a farewell ceremony on Saturday for the Normal-based 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade before the unit’s deployment to the Horn of Africa.

The Town of Normal will continue to focus on debt reduction as part of its budgeting priorities next year. City Manager Pam Reece said that's part of a draft plan heading to the town council for a work session on Wednesday.

The State of Illinois closed the year with about 333,000 people out of work and looking for a job. The state Department of Employment Security said Friday that's down by nearly a third from December 2020.

The McLeean County Health Department on Friday announced the deaths of three women from COVID-19.

A Bloomington-Normal pediatrician says there’s a compelling new reason for parents to consider getting their children vaccinated against COVID-19.

Marcus Theatres in Bloomington will offer "vaccination-required" showtimes for moviegoers, starting Friday. Patrons will have the option of seeing movies like "Scream" with fully-vaxxed crowds.

Nurses caring for COVID patients must grieve their losses, over and over again.

The Illinois Symphony returns to the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 28 with its latest concert, “Incredibly Italian.” The program features works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schumann, three composers who weren’t exactly Italian but drew inspiration from the bel paese.

Nearly two years into the pandemic, students are still confronting uncertainties. That's especially true on college campuses where COVID has fundamentally changed the university experience.

McLean County saw a decline in the number of eviction filings in the final two months of last year, soon after evictions were allowed to resume.