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As many auto companies develop electric cars, the need for batteries is growing.

Several auto repair shops are busier than usual in Bloomington-Normal as people keep their cars longer.

President Biden's push for vaccine mandates is supported by a majority of voters, but it marks a break with his previous unifying tone — a sign that Democrats see pandemic politics changing.

Filmmakers Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra are both winners of MacArthur Genius grants this year. The married couple do separate but related work dealing with immigration and migrant labor.

Millions of Americans have been exposed to a tremendous rise in wildfire smoke in recent years. People in rural Northern California are seeing some of the longest periods of smoke.

Energy prices are going up — for things like coal, natural gas and crude oil. On Tuesday, global crude oil prices topped $80 a barrel for the first time in nearly three years.

Recent flood deaths highlighted the dangers of living in basement apartments. Experts are looking for ways to keep people safer below ground and alternative affordable housing so they won't have to.

Fatima Bhutto (niece of assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto) has written several volumes of nonfiction and poetry; her first novel is a delicate but tense political thriller.

McLean County has topped 22,000 coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic after the county health department announced 51 new daily positive tests on Tuesday.

The massive fish have been protected since 1990, after they were nearly wiped out. But now, Florida is proposing allowing the first catch of goliath groupers in more than three decades.