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The marriage of rock and bluegrass might seem an odd combination, but for the bluegrass group the HillBenders, it works.South By Southwest music festival…

A Bloomington-Normal pediatrician says there’s a lot that parents and caregivers can do to improve kids’ sleeping habits, whether or not Congress moves ahead with making permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST).

Fulton County is launching a new campaign to bring tourism dollars to the community.

Armed militants occupying a natural refuge in a remote part of Oregon say they will stay until the land is under local control. The local sheriff has pleaded repeatedly with the occupiers to leave.

New rules in California require the composting of food scraps and yard cuttings. Commercial composting facilities are gearing up to cash in as they turn food scraps into fertilizer and other products.

At the turn of the 20th century, visiting a drug store meant going to a soda counter with a pharmacist. If you wanted to go shopping, you would go to a department store. Now that trend is reversing: drug stores are battling to keep consumers in the store for longer.

Investigation into what ignited the wildfires, and why they proved so deadly, is just beginning. Some people want a ban on plantings of eucalyptus: a common tree that is extremely flammable.

The extreme warming trend continues, and scientists fear that floating sea ice will be gone by midcentury. That will have extraordinary effects closer to home.

Pedro Pierluisi takes office amid the island's ongoing efforts to claw itself out of an economic crunch and recover from natural disasters.

The renowned economist and former Obama adviser Alan Krueger died this past weekend. We look at his enormous legacy.