The Great Backyard Bird Count lasts through February 14. It is a joint project of the National Audubon Society, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Birds Canada to help scientists track changes in bird ...

The Illinois Valley Herb Guild will have its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, at the Putnam County Community ...

The Greene County Sheriff's Office was searching for Evrinn "Zo" Worlds on charges related to the death of Jackie Strahle for over a week.

Authorities arrested a man in Illinois wanted in the death investigation of a 14-year-old girl in Greene County.

• A 38-year-old Alton man was booked into the Greene County Jail at 5:25 a.m. Feb. 4 on a Greene County warrant accusing him ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning biographies, and Ankrom is working on the final volume of his three-volume ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The Sangamon County Board has approved a $10 million settlement for the family of Sonya Massey. Massey was shot and killed in her kitchen by a county sheriff's deputy last ...

President Donald Trump 's decision that the U.S. Department of the Treasury will stop minting new pennies could cost jobs in the heavily Republican county they are currently partly produced in, ...

Final agreements between Frontier Communications and the Greene County Economic Development Group have been reached and, after roughly four years in process, construction is close to getting underway.

Attorney and lifelong Greene County resident Chris Simms announced he is running for Court of Common Pleas judge. Trusted for ...

With EV sales growth slowing and threats by President Trump to impose tariffs, pause infrastructure buildout and end federal ...

Multiple counties want to leave, and Indiana says come on over.