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Former federal officials are backing an effort to reform the state legislature’s redistricting process. Congressional districts would be unaffected. Illinois’ state Senate map gives a partisan advantage to Democrats, and its House map isn’t compact enough, according to researchers at Princeton

“The sign is down,” Clinton County Board Chairman Brad Knolhoff said Tuesday afternoon. “My understanding from Lamar [Advertising] is that it’s down, and it’s not going back up. I hope they stand by that.”

The home-improvement chain is now one of the companies most caught up in Trump's immigration crackdown. The retailer's history with day laborers is long. So far, it's choosing to keep its distance.

Bill McKibben says solar is a "last chance for the climate." T. Kingfisher offers a dark retelling of Snow White. Nicholas Boggs tells James Baldwin's story. Plus new debut fiction.

A billboard promoting the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, has been put up near a high school in Clinton County in southwest Illinois, about 50 miles east of St. Louis.

NPR marks World Photography Day with images of everyday moments of gathering from communities across the U.S. taken by photographers from the network's member stations.

Despite federal budget cutbacks, the multicultural event returns Aug. 23-24 to Tower Grove Park.

A jury awarded Mansur Ball-Bey’s family nearly $19 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Instead of paying, the city is seeking a new trial.

The Aid Worker Security Database, which has compiled reports since 1997, said the number of killings rose from 293 in 2023 to 383 in 2024, including over 180 in Gaza.

Sumner High alumni rallied to welcome students starting the school year at Stevens Middle School and vowed to fight for the school’s future.

Generations of spectators and competitors take over a small hamlet in Western N.Y. each summer to participate in a motorsport with roots in farming: the tractor pull.

Many Mormon women are celebrating the new garments, which they've been requesting for years. Others say the church's all-male leadership should have listened to them sooner.