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After nearly 12 years on the Peoria City Council, Jim Montelongo believes he is the best choice to follow Jim Ardis as the city's mayor.

We created a mini travel guide to Gaza City's historical and cultural landmarks five years ago. Every site we visited is now destroyed, badly damaged, or inaccessible.

For artist Thomas McKean, the New York City MetroCard was anything but mundane. He used cut-up bits of the cards to create hundreds of sculptures and collages, and still has a stockpile to work with.

An Iraqi man looks back on seven decades in the city of Mosul, recalling the times of turmoil and horror but also savoring the city's better days.

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry.

In Las Vegas, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly takes stock of the mood amid vigils to those who lost their lives on Sunday and tourists returning to the city as usual.

Peoria NAACP president Marvin Hightower is lobbying for an expanded COVID-19 testing site in the East Bluff, South Side, or central Peoria.

Issues of vanity aside, the mask has become an emblem of submission to experts, to officialdom — to Washington. By the same token, the refusal to wear a mask becomes another badge of defiance.

Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Phillip Atiba Goff, CEO of the Center for Policing Equity, about the different police reform initiatives on ballots in cities across the country this week.

New York may soon be the largest district in the U.S. to ban phones from the classroom. “They’re not just a distraction, kids are fully addicted now to phones," says the city's schools chancellor.