U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing federal protections for the monarch butterfly. The service Thursday, Dec.

More than five years after Illinois began issuing permits for legal production of industrial hemp, Gov. JB Pritzker said Friday he now favors legislation to bring the industry under tighter regulation ...

The Marion boys basketball team improved to 5-2 after traveling an hour and a half up north to beat a very good Breese Mater Dei team on its home court Friday night and then traveling almost an hour ...

The School of Applied Engineering and Technology at SIU Carbondale is cooperating with a Marion electronics manufacturer to ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials plan to drain Little Grassy Lake this month, saying the dramatic step is needed to stave off a potential "cascade of infrastructure failures" that could devastate ...

After a strong, yet disappointing performance on opening weekend at Jacksonville, the Marion boy’s basketball team put its marker down for greater things to come with a blowout at Cahokia Friday night ...

Rend Lake is the largest lake in southern Illinois; the 18,900 acres of water and 21,000 acres of surrounding parks and protected lands provide outstanding habitat for waterfowl, waders, shorebirds, ...