This past school year, for the first time, Illinois schools were required to teach a unit on the experience and history of ...

A dangerous collision on Interstate 24 on Wednesday resulted in a road closure that rerouted traffic headed toward Illinois to the U.S. 45 Ohio River "Brookport" ...

Looking for a place to live in Mississippi? This town is one of the most affordable places to live in the U.S. What you need to know.

In 2019, an unrelenting flood swamped more than half a million acres in the Mississippi Delta's Yazoo Backwater. It took more than six months to recede. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd reports on a pumping ...

The state appropriated $6 million in 2022 for a museum in Botetourt, but it’s taken until now to find the local match — and a place to put the facility.

The water levels are low and it's exposing numerous valuables and treasures on the shore of the Mississippi River! We walked ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Jay Gibson started running marathons 20 years ago. Now, he’s one of just a few thousand to run one in every state.

The Centre de la Louisiane sign, marking the geographic center of Louisiana, stands on Old River Road in Mansura, about 5 ...

Joseph C. Canizaro, a prolific real-estate developer who thought and built big, resulting in a series of projects that ...

More than 30 million people across 14 states rely on the Ohio River watershed for drinking water, recreation, and for their ...

Robert Macfarlane’s meditation on the life and times of great waterways poses many perplexing questions but answers few.