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Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner will seek public input at three town hall meetings in December.The meetings are scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 5, at the YWCA…

A federal arbitrator is ordering the city of Peoria to rehire a police officer fired in 2018 for racially insensitive social media posts.

Speakers at a Housing Action Illinois conference in Bloomington say a partnership between the City of Peoria and the Salvation Army is one example of...

British counterterrorism police are investigating three improvised devices found at Heathrow and London City airports and Waterloo station.

Officials in the city of Wuhan plan to test all 11 million residents for COVID-19. The measure is meant to combat a potential second wave of coronavirus after six new cases were reported following more than a month of no new infections.

The City of Bloomington is working with consultants Houseal Lavigne Associates to create a new playbook that governs the types of businesses and…

Leaders from a New York Hasidic village lobbied New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, before turning to Hillary Rodham Clinton, to ask for presidential pardons for four members of their community who had been convicted for defrauding the federal government, according to the New York Post. The Hasidic leaders met with aides to the mayor when he was a likely candidate for the U.S. Senate, offering to organize an event for him in their community. They wanted Giuliani to write a letter to U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, on behalf of the four convicts. But the aides refused. Later, the leaders called and asked the aides how the Mayor would feel if they supported Hillary Rodham Clinton for U.S. Senate. Robert talks with Gregg Birnbaum, a city hall reporter for the New York Post.

If the 21st century belongs to China, then the city that will be at the heart of that success will be Shanghai. In the first of seven reports, NPR's Rob Gifford sets out on a 3,000-mile journey across China, and learns just how far the nation has to go before its development catches up with its potential.

Wal-Mart is closing a store in a small northern Quebec city after employees voted to unionize. The closure has the blue-collar town -- and the store's employees -- divided over who's to blame.

Frank Stasio talks with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Last year, his second CD, The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1, was nominated for a Grammy. He's played in several top jazz festivals across America and abroad, and is scheduled to perform solo concerts at Lincoln Center in New York City and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He's also recorded with country music legend Willie Nelson. Brad Mehldau's latest CD is The Art of the Trio, Vol. 2: Live At the Village Vanguard. He spoke to us from member station KCUR in Kansas City.