Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

On this Earth Day, we asked UI professors who study climate change for the one word that best sums up how they feel at this ...

New details are emerging about the seizure of Peanut the squirrel in upstate New York in October. New York wildlife officials who came with a warrant looking for Peanut the ...

Fourth-term U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens has launched her run for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday with a video focused on the economic crisis caused ...

The city of Champaign plans to buy 201 W. University Ave. while continuing to lease space to Chase Bank. The city of ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Tuesday speech that the ongoing tariffs showdown with China is unsustainable and expects a “de-escalation” in the trade war between the world’s ...

Opening statements are set in former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial, this time with a majority-female jury deciding the landmark #MeToo case. Opening statements are set to begin on ...

The company behind a planned $8.9 billion carbon capture pipeline in the Midwest has proposed reducing its route through South Dakota to secure the necessary ...

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday that television ratings from the opening weekend of the playoffs were the best the league has seen in about a ...

We asked the Rev. Patrick O'Neal, pastor at St. Patrick in Tolono and St. Joseph in Ivesdale, how he'll remember Pope Francis ...

Zach Piatt covers high school sports at The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected].