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The Bloomington Normal Economic Development Council has three infrastructure projects and one workforce development program earmarked for a request for funding by Congress and federal agencies as part of the annual One Voice trip to Washington.

A Republican state senator from Bloomington said unfairly blaming educators for the state’s pension problems contributed to what’s become a stubborn teacher shortage.

Conservative voters are hoping to reshuffle the map by taking counties in eastern and southern Oregon and making them a part of neighboring Idaho.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz during the U.S. war with Iran has sent energy prices way up. Something similar happened back in 1973 during the OPEC oil embargo. Find out more in this episode of McHistory.

The county was first named after a slave-owning former vice president who had no connection to Iowa. Now it will be named for Lulu Merle Johnson: the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in the state.

The McLean County Coroner’s Office has identified the three people killed in shootings Monday afternoon at a north Normal mobile home park.

The electric automaker Rivian says it made just under 50,000 vehicles in Normal in 2024 and that supply problems with a key motor part have been fixed.

The California Legislature approved a bill that would let county officials give Bruce's Beach back to the family that owned it nearly a century ago. It now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom for his signature.

The economic incentives package that lured Rivian’s second plant to Georgia was finally made public Monday – and its size dwarfs the tax breaks that put the company’s first plant in Normal.

Last month's historic floods left hundreds of McLean County residents in need of help. The Salvation Army of Bloomington said it's fielded calls from more than 200 residents who've asked for assistance with flood damage.