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A student foreign exchange program for Bloomington-Normal has returned after a delay that began with the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers hope the program can grow to where it was decades ago.

The Bloomington-Normal Asahikawa Sister Cities Committee hosted junior ambassadors from Asahikawa, Japan this past week for the first time since the pandemic.

The Bloomington-Normal Asahikawa, Japan Sister Cities program is marking 60 years since its founding. A delegation that includes Asahikawa's mayor is on a whirlwind three-day visit this week to the Twin Cities to celebrate the program that creates citizen ambassadors to promote goodwill and friendship.

Concerns over the coronavirus have prompted Bloomington-Normal Sister Cities to cancel this year's junior ambassador trip.Fifteen students in grades seven…

The chair of the Bloomington-Normal Sister Cities Committee said Tuesday that he doesn’t want the recent controversy surrounding Mayor Tari Renner to…

Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner said Thursday he won’t let an Illinois State Police investigation into his recent trip to Japan become a distraction that…

Former Bloomington Mayor Judy Markowitz, a groundbreaking leader whose passion for downtown helped bring a controversial arena and performing arts center…

Bloomington-Normal community members shared their road trip stories during the latest Next to Normal Story Slam on July 19 at the McLean County Arts…

WGLT photographer Emily Bollinger was there to capture some of the biggest moments of the year. Check out some of their best photos of 2023 in the gallery above.

On today's episode, Bloomington-Normal is about to send its first student to its Japanese sister city since the pandemic, while its sister cities program with Russia remains on hold because of the war in Ukraine, a state capitol reporter recaps the major developments from the just-closed legislative session, plus the latest winner of Bloomington's Black History essay contest.