A handful of states already have minimum wages at or above $15 an hour. Others have rates far below that benchmark.

The U.S. logged 122 more cases of measles last week — but only four of them in Texas — while the outbreaks in Pennsylvania and Michigan officially ended. There were 1,168 confirmed measles cases ...

Data: Protect Kids from Lead analysis of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency data. Note: Towns exceed the limit if 10% of homes measured have more than 15ppb of lead in their water. Table: Axios ...

Locals and businesses from along the Katy Trail and Rock Island Trail are encouraged to attend the summit to get updates on ...

A retail development boom at the Sunshine Street and West Bypass intersection, long home to a Walmart Supercenter, may give a ...

Two metro-east counties were among the 15 in the state to gain population from 2020 to 2024, according to the U.S. Census ...

Mother Nature’s gift of ample rain helping to reduce drought map’s grip in High Plains, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor ...

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Central Illinois, mainly west of the ...

Widespread rain falls in many regions of the High Plains providing welcome relief, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

At least seven people are dead in Missouri after strong supercell storms that spurred tornado warnings slammed into St. Louis on Friday. Two others died in Virginia.

A shuttle bus crash Saturday morning in Gasconade County, Missouri ... ranging in age from their 20s to 60s and from cities in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas, were transported by ground EMS ...

Mike Braun signed a new law creating the Indiana-Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission. The goal of the commission is to explore taking counties from Illinois and ... group would prefer to join ...