Ashli Quintela goes to the Valley Rock Gym in Corvallis three or four days a week to climb and attend fitness classes. Before this spring though, Quintela, who identifies as Black and Mexican, said ...

EAST CHICAGO — A group of law enforcement and emergency management officials wants to convert a school closed by the city's arsenic and lead crisis into a crime intelligence and public safety ...

Steve Ourecky also has fixed a couple of main street buildings in Wilber, Nebraska. Now he’s working on the Fox Hole Tavern, center. Steve Ourecky’s latest project in Wilber, Nebraska, is the Fox Hole ...

ENTERPRISE - The Fatherhood Initiative in Coffee County, and program director Rodrick Caldwell, have been named the Children’s Trust Fund of Alabama’s “Grantee Champion of the Year.” ...

Words, usually, are an ally. They tend to come in staccato bursts in the form of questions and random thoughts when there’s a story to tell or news that needs to be shared.

NORMAL — Don Whitman, who teaches technology and engineering at Normal Community High, was named the 2026 East Central Regional Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education.

GARY — A former landfill and Superfund site where smoky pollution once plagued the residents of the Black Oak neighborhood may soon be developed into a type of modern business park.

Friday is St. Patrick’s Day — and if you can’t find corned beef and cabbage and green beer, you’re not trying. We hear the Reuben sandwiches are going fast, too.