Regional & State News
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As state lawmakers hold hearings targeting the role of pharmacy benefit managers – an influential arm in how the health insurance industry prices prescription drugs – multiple state agencies are considering how to better regulate the industry.
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The fundraiser regularly draws in big names in the national Republican Party, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence.
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A woman is dead after she was struck by a vehicle on a busy roadway outside Washington.
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Advocates seek $50M to keep programs operating.
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95 former detainees sue over abuse they allegedly experienced from 1996 to 2017.
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After Illinois received another failing grade from a national advocacy group, state House Republicans have introduced legislation aimed at further protecting victims and prosecuting perpetrators of human trafficking.
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As legislative session nears its end, policy platform part of ongoing clean energy debate
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Petersen Health Care's properties could be sold off by end of July under company's proposed timelinePetersen Health Care is asking a federal bankruptcy judge to approve a sale timeline that would see its nursing homes divested to new ownership by the end of July.
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Matt Mitchell may refile request for a formal hearing in 90 days
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The NFL team's effort to get a new stadium seems to be getting sacked by the governor's office and other state officials. Also a central Illinois prison could be re-built near Joliet, raising concerns in the community that's housed the facility.
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Six officers memorialized at annual ceremony
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An investigation found a number of hospitals skirt a state law.