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McLean County's new state's attorney says she hopes the job will give her a better platform to address child welfare issues. Erika Reynolds has been critical of the how Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has handled abuse allegations.

Names and faces get lost in the din of COVID-19 statistics. It's easy to become numb to it. But the family of McLean County's youngest coronavirus victim…

Waste collected in Bloomington will need a new destination in the near future.State regulators expect the McLean County landfill to run out of space next…

WGLT is working on a story about the impacts of inflation on our community. In particular, we’d like to speak with workers in McLean County who are close to retirement and are watching how inflation could impact their ability to retire when they had hoped.

According to a joint news release from the Bloomington Police Department and the McLean County Coroner’s Office issued late Monday, 33-year-old Christoper Simmons of Bloomington died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he shot and killed his girlfriend, Chelsea Lusher, 31, of Bloomington; Lusher’s biological son, 13-year-old Armoni Bennett of Bloomington; and a friend of Lusher, 31-year-old Trina Hollings of Normal.

DOWNS -- One McLean County hemp grower says it may be too late to plant corn crops, but the limit for growing hemp is sky high.

The Normal Town Council voted Monday to rename Mitsubishi Motorway for Rivian, which now owns the plant along that west-side road. It was a 4-2…

Bloomington-Normal is expecting some nice weather over the next few days. That raises new questions about the coronavirus stay-at-home order: Is it OK to…

Patrick Hoban, president and CEO of the Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council, presented economic data Thursday during a BN By The Numbers event.

Original proposed routes for Ameren's $1.6 billion grid upgrade included two possibilities that crossed through a south Bloomington nature preserve. The proposal now relies on existing corridors north of the Schroeder Wildlife Preserve.