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The veteran rockers talk about the benefits of the nontraditional way they've chosen to record and support their latest studio album, Thrashing Thru The Passion.

Many young people leave the Peoria area for other cities when they start out on their own. But around Thanksgiving, they head home.

A search committee has named two finalists for Bloomington’s police chief position.BPD co-interim chief Dan Donath and Parkland College Police Chief…

A new winery has won final approval from the Washington City Council to open.

Bloomington-Normal has made a list of the top college towns in the nation.The ranking from the American Institute for Economic Research looked at towns…

The Bloomington City Council has agreed to move forward with an October 10 public hearing for a Tax Increment Financing district in downtown. The proposed…

McLean County Board member Logan Smith has announced his resignation from the board, effective immediately. Smith said he has a new job with the City of Mesa, Ariz.

SCOTUS sided with a Catholic Church-affiliated foster agency in Philadelphia. The city refused to place children for foster care with the organization unless it allowed same-sex couples to become foster parents.

A year-and-a-half ago, two-thousand employees of the city's two daily papers walked off the job over wages and work rules. The strike cost the newspapers more than $100 million and knocked circulation down by 30-percent. Some striking workers could be back on the job by next week, but most won't be so lucky...the newspapers say they will not lay off the permanent replacement workers who kept both papers running through the strike.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on today's reopening of the observation deck at the Empire State Building. Two days ago, a gunman there killed a tourist, wounded six others, and then fatally shot himself. Officials have now installed metal detectors for those visiting the deck, and are searching bags. The attack brought much criticism from New York City's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani about how the shooter, 69 year old Palestinian Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, was able to legally buy the gun in Florida, despite only having been in the country for a month. Abu Kamal's family say he was distraught after losing his life's savings. However, notes found on his body may point to another direction.