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Electric automaker Rivian will hire over 550 additional full-time workers in Normal within five years as it begins production on the new R2 model — part of a $1.5 billion investment and expansion plan announced Thursday. In exchange, Rivian is set to receive $827 million in state tax breaks and other incentives over the next 30 years.

The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.

Bloomington wants to partner with Home Sweet Home to put around $1 million in federal grant money toward shelter improvements. That includes solar panels, potential shelter expansion and the development of a non-congregate shelter for those currently encamped across the city.

Officially, only one person has caught the illness during the current outbreak. But with limited testing, cases could be flying under the radar.

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut about the legacy of Joe Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator and onetime Democratic VP nominee, who died at age 82.

Some 200 servers speed-walked through Paris balancing trays of beverages and croissants on Sunday. Paris hasn't held a waiters race since 2011, but brought it back ahead of the Olympics.

As the number of wind and solar farms grow, officials in some Midwest states are taking steps to counter local opposition to the projects.

Kennedy, who's known for anti-vaccine advocacy and as a promoter of conspiracy theories, picked Nicole Shanahan, a political novice, as his running mate for his independent presidential campaign.

The world’s richest companies have built their fortunes on burning fossil fuels and polluting the climate with greenhouse gasses. But author Akshat Rathi that same drive for development and material wealth can be a force for good, according to some, he says, it might be our only hope.

A Bloomington lawyer representing the wife of an Illinois State University administrator who died in 2022 hopes a pending legal case in the McLean County court system will set precedents.