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The Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District has approved spending $7.7 million to upgrade the City of Bloomington's Sunnyside Park on the west side to a sustainable park.

Illinois Wesleyan University on Thursday announced a new interdisciplinary program focused on quantum science that it says will be the first of its kind in the U.S.

Authorities in the U.S. territory of Northern Mariana Islands are just beginning to assess the damage from Super Typhoon Sinlaku. Power was out and many of the roads were impassable across Saipan, the largest of the islands.

Farmworkers are particularly vulnerable to the extreme heat that's affected so many areas of the country including the Midwest. The push for a federal heatprotection policy is slow.

Northern Greece is experiencing the worst wildfires the European Union has ever seen. Extreme weather attributed to climate change is partly responsible.

Librarians in at least three states are asking the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene after they were fired for refusing to ban books.

New Orleans residents are preparing for a possible deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents to the region, even though the agency won't say whether or not it is actually coming.

The High Atlas Mountains run east to west across central Morocco. They're some of the wildest, most remote places in North Africa. Here's an audio postcard from a trek in the area.

Flood sirens blared early Thursday in Comfort, Texas, as the Guadalupe River rose more than 30 feet in three hours, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The storm could bring even more rainfall than last year's deadly Fourth of July floods.

Five states hold primary elections Tuesday in races that could signal the future for the Democratic and Republican parties.