When most people think of bird senses, they think of the eyes. Sayings like “eagle eye” and “bird’s eye view” come to mind. And it is true, the primary sensory organ that birds depend upon ...

Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials plan to drain Little Grassy Lake this month, saying the dramatic step is needed to stave off a potential "cascade of infrastructure failures" that could devastate ...

Rend Lake is the largest lake in southern Illinois; the 18,900 acres of water and 21,000 acres of surrounding parks and protected lands provide outstanding habitat for waterfowl, waders, shorebirds, ...

Roger Gail Winters, 76, of Elizabethtown passed away peacefully at his home in the Rock Creek community on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. Roger was born on July 5, 1948. Private graveside services will be ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing federal protections for the monarch butterfly. The service Thursday, Dec. 12, proposed to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species and ...

Whoever wrote, “I’ve been around the world, I’m a woman, not a girl” must have been thinking of Donna Woolcott. A spirited and strong-willed woman, Donna passed away peacefully at the age of 95 on Oct ...

The School of Applied Engineering and Technology at SIU Carbondale is cooperating with a Marion electronics manufacturer to educate workers. The university and AISIN Electronics Illinois have ...

After a strong, yet disappointing performance on opening weekend at Jacksonville, the Marion boy’s basketball team put its marker down for greater things to come with a blowout at Cahokia Friday night ...

LaWanda Jean Jackson, 77, a former resident of Rosiclare, passed away at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, at her residence at Autumn Ridge Supportive Living in Vienna. Jean, as she was known to family ...