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We talk with an influential Haitian DJ about why we should care about unique new music emerging from this Caribbean nation.

After a short discussion, the East Peoria City Council approved an application for a $400,000 state grant to make a splash pad at Levee Park a reality.

The Peoria County Sheriff's Office is investigating after skeletal human remains were found in the Illinois River near Glasford.

Bloomington Planning Commission member Jay Ballmer is running for Alderman in Ward Three.Before his kickoff event at an east side restaurant and night…

With the precarious nature of state funding as a backdrop, Illinois State University President Larry Dietz said he is working to organize a coalition of…

The massive wildfires in Australia that burned from 2019 into 2020 have had impacts far beyond the continent.

When Ray Charles died in June of this year, Hollywood was already at work on his film biography. NPR's Michele Norris talks with actor and comedian Jamie Foxx, who portrays the musical legend in Ray.

A fossil find overturns the conventional wisdom that the earliest mammals were all rodent-sized and meek. One of the fossils was found with its last meal -- a young dinosaur -- still in its stomach.

Robert Crumb, the iconic cartoonist and illustrator, lives in a small French village and does not often speak to the media. In a conversation with Frank Browning, he talks about his love of music from bygone days and his band, the Cheap Suit Serenaders.

Twenty-six years after it left Earth, NASA's Voyager spacecraft is nearing the edge of the solar system. It's original mission was to study Saturn, but now it's heading off into the unknown, NPR's Richard Harris reports. See photos from Voyager.