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From early childhood to higher education, the new spending plan provides more resources.

As part of our series on issues leading up to what has become a national primary on Super Tuesday, Robert Siegel talks with Carrie Kahn about the presidential candidates' positions on immigration.

The first show in our listener-suggested series looks at homeschooling.

Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason has named an interim fire chief following Brian Mohr's retirement.Deputy Chief Eric West has 29 years with the…

The International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government announced their decision to postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics. What do the athletes do now?

A 23-year-old Bartonville man who disappeared two weeks ago was found dead in rural Delavan on Thursday.

In the last debate before the Iowa caucuses, six Democratic candidates for president squared off.

Melissa Block speaks with Patrick O'Connor, political reporter for the Wall Street Journal about Mitt Romney telling donors he wants to run again for president in 2016.

Students at Harvard University are flocking to a new class that they hope may provide hints to the secret to happiness. Psychology 1504, or "positive psychology," has become the most popular course on campus. It focuses on what makes people happy, rather than just their pathologies.

Scientists in California have made new embryonic stem cell lines that overcome a potential problem facing the use of stem cells in human therapy. But distributing the new lines to other researchers is a challenge; the government restricts federal funding on lines not created prior to 2001. NPR's Joe Palca reports.