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Home health care workers are paid close to poverty wages in many parts of the country. And that's a problem, according to Illinois State University…

Forty years ago this week, the lines began to form around the block for Star Wars—a film that went on to explode not just box office records, but make a…

When Normal native Ryan Weisheit played the GLT Summer Concert in 2104 with Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers, he gushed at the time about the thriving "Hot…

Ameren Illinois is planning a 10-mile, high-voltage transmission line from near Hudson to Normal.It's part of the company's $45 million project to…

It was a long weekend for the Normal Fire Department.It started early Saturday morning, when a freight train derailed in Uptown. That afternoon, a fire…

In the ongoing debate over nature versus nature, twin studies have given a glimpse into the role of genes in behavior and decisions. Psychologist Nancy Segal shares stories of twins raised apart.

A Cadillac salesman and an oil-rig engineer are working to put the nation's first offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Mexico.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with David and Nathan Zellner about their new, absurd film "Sasquatch Sunset," which is about a family of sasquatches.

More than 100 nations will sign the climate change deal agreed to in December. It will eventually commit nealy all the world's governments to cut back on greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

Confirmation hearings scheduled before Inauguration Day including Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos and Scott Pruitt, nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.