The Prairie Land Potawatomi Nation has reclaimed land in Illinois that was promised to the tribe’s leader 175 years ago but ...

More than 175 years after their reservation in Illinois was illegally sold at auction, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is ...

The state's attorney in Lake County, Ill., says residents are safer because of its use of "Firearm Restraining Orders," or FROs. This morning we're Cooking with Fire at the Grayslake Fire ...

Severe weather threatens the mid-Mississippi Valley and Southeast this weekend, with possible hail, and isolated tornadoes. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The National Weather Service reports an EF-2 tornado that started in St. Clair County hit an estimated 120 mph in peak winds ...

A severe weather system spawned intense, long-duration tornadoes that struck parts of Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri, leaving some communities in tatters.

A quickly-spreading wildfire, fueled by powerful winds, has forced the urgent evacuation of the entire town of Velma, in ...

Thousands of power outages were reported Saturday as a deadly severe weather outbreak moved across the Midwest and South.

The annual permit total was increased after research from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale indicated that Illinois' bobcat population could support increased levels of hunting ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WNCT) — Washington County’s boys basketball team had its season come to an end in the state semifinal Tuesday in Winston-Salem. The Panthers fell, 70-56, to Southern Wake ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. – The sun is the next renewable energy source set to power southern Illinois. So much so, that the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency has entered into a 20-year agreement ...

But Washington County didn't give up. The Panthers started the third quarter on a 9-0 run. Turnovers and offensive rebounds proved to be a problem after that though. Southern Wake went on a run of its ...