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Hurricane Katrina hit rural Hancock County, Miss., with stronger wind and higher water than anywhere else along the Gulf Coast. More than half of the county's 19,000 homes were destroyed. A year later, little of it is back.

District 87 is keeping its property tax rate nearly flat. The school board has approved a $48.5 million levy that projects significant growth in taxable land values.

With the Normal Town Council's vote Tuesday night, an outdoor circuit-training center could be constructed as early as this summer — in collaboration with a national nonprofit fighting a rise in obesity.

Nearly 200 faculty, staff, students and community members have signed an open letter urging Illinois State University to “mandate a COVID-19 vaccine” in the same way that the University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University have done. On Friday, a top aide to the ISU president said they’ve already done that.

A noted central Illinois jurist has taken aim at the criminal justice system, some rulings by the current Supreme Court, and the negative effect on the nation from the oft-recurring use of fear to shape political ends in the U.S.

Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal has opened a newly renovated space for inpatient mental health and addiction recovery.“Illinois, throughout the…

Chad Holliday of Normal got the call on Mother’s Day.On May 10, the administrator at his mother’s nursing home and rehab center called to tell him a few…

New CDC guidance puts most of the U.S. at low risk of COVID-19. But what does that actually mean? Experts says the CDC metrics aren't necessarily the best way to gauge your individual risk.

Fraud centered on remediation of leaking underground storage tanks

The new director of the Bloomington Election Commission says those who want to combine the commission with the county clerk should do a study to prove cost savings and address the reasons the commission was created in the first place to remove partisanship from the process. The President of Eureka College says the pandemic has been a forcing mechanism for higher education change already under way. Bloomington Normal has had many distinguished writers and poets over the decades. Meet Harold Sinclair in the next episode of our series McHistory. And a new book from scholars at ISU looks at how school dress codes sexualize young girls.