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Organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games want to make use of the Seine River, even for some swimming events. Cleaning up the city's famous waterway is proving difficult though.

An environmental advocacy group lists Bloomington among more than 600 locations across the United States whose water may be contaminated with a highly…

Six months into his new role as Bloomington police chief, Dan Donath said his department has made progress in some key areas, including recruiting more…

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with artist and producer Finneas, best known for his work with sister Billie Eilish, about his debut album.

Last week, high school freshman Jackie Kantor and her younger sister Melissa had an idea: they wanted to give displaced children new backpacks. More than 2,000 backpacks have been collected for kids who lost all their other possessions in Hurricane Katrina.

A brother and sister remember Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old girl who was shot and killed in 1991 by a store clerk in South Central Los Angeles — the same month Rodney King was beaten.

During the height of the AIDS epidemic, two sisters lost both their parents to the disease — a gay father who'd had to keep a secret life, and a mother who could never forgive him.

Book reviews can be pretty liberal about comparing authors to Jane Austen, but here's a writer who actually lives up to that association. Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector stars two sisters struggling to decide between wealth and virtue in dot-com-era California.

The player, nicknamed “Johnny Hockey,” and his younger brother, Matthew, were struck and killed by an SUV one day before they were to appear in their sister's wedding.

The prosecutor had just finished a long Q&A with his chief witness—the lead investigator in the Coliseum fraud case. Step by step, the Illinois State…