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A federal appeals court denied the president's attempt to reinstate his controversial executive order, at least for now. Refugee groups are seizing the opportunity and booking plane tickets.

ICE is using a new tool to get sanctuary communities to cooperate with immigration enforcement. Critics say this maneuver has the same legal problem as past efforts. But the new tactic is working.

We discuss the latest State of Local News report produced by the Local News Initiative at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

The LaSalle County coroner on Tuesday tried to push back on what he called false information circulating about Jelani Day’s death — rumors that have had plenty of room to spread in the absence of almost any information being released by authorities.

Two cultural events are planned in the city of Lincoln this month, even after their city council denied a request for financial help.

The World Health Organization confirmed on Thursday that two teenagers in Turkey have died from bird flu. In the U.S., the Seattle region one of the few areas preparing in earnest to face a flu pandemic.

The Senate Banking Committee approved Richard Cordray, President Obama's nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a party-line vote. But 44 Republican lawmakers have vowed to block any and every nominee in the full Senate until the bureau is changed.

School meals are the only meals some children get in a day. But during the pandemic, school feeding programs have been reaching fewer and fewer families.

After decades of modern fire prevention some forests are much thicker than they've been historically. New research offers a guide to thinning that could keep wildfires smaller and shorter.

The voters were flagged under Georgia's exact match law, which critics said was an attempt at suppressing the vote.