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State Police are investigating past Coliseum operations in Bloomington.A city news release indicated concerns arose several months ago involving the…

A major redevelopment plan for Downtown Bloomington’s south end would create more housing and parking and finally remove a rundown eyesore that’s vexed city leaders for years. The plan, announced Friday night, would give the City of Bloomington control over prime underperforming real estate.

Everyday life is slowly returning to normal for the residents f Oklahoma City ten days after the bombing of the federal building. NPR's Wade oodwyn attended a local college baseball game and spoke with a few citizens bout the gradual transition from chaos to relative stability over this past eek.

Most Americans come to France expecting to see the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower. Commentator David Sedaris describes his experiences in the City of Lights from his preferred venue: the inside of a movie theater.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the silence that could be coming soon to San Francisco's city hall. A new measure proposes a ban on cell phones in the building.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Kari Watkins, executive director of the Oklahoma City National Memorial. President Bush is scheduled to speak today at the opening of the new museum, the third component of the National Memorial.

Mike Jenkins has retracted his resignation as mayor of Farmer City. On Friday, Jenkins announced his resignation on a Facebook post and said it was…

A group of Detroit residents are trying to help the city recover, on a hyper-local scale, by removing the blight from their neighborhood, one abandoned house and empty lot at a time.

Commentator Guillermo Gomez-Pena is just back from Mexico City -- where he took part in a Christmas reunion with family members from across North America. It was hardly a happy holiday: almost everyone had a tale of unemployment, crime or poverty. The NAFTA dream, Gomez-Pena says, is over.

New York City residents are remembering one of their most colorful mayors. Ed Koch served the city for three terms in the 70s and 80s, an era when New York was plagued by fiscal problems, crime, and the AIDS epidemic. He didn't disappear when he was voted out of office. With his radio show and a stint as a TV judge, he became almost a stereotype of New York's brash, tell-it-like-it-is personality.