The Brookfield Zoo is a perfect day trip spot for families, couples and friends. The 235-acre zoo houses 3,481 animals belonging to 511 species and offers various spring events. Visitors can peruse ...

House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, appears to be entirely serious about his idea for Indiana to negotiate with Illinois about the Hoosier State absorbing up to 33 Illinois counties whose voters ...

One of those speed boats zipped through dense jungle-cloaked rivers near the Colombia-Panama border on Sunday, headed south. Inside were around 20 migrants clinging to their backpacks and ...

Jeremy Putman of the Riverview Boat Store in Bellevue recently announced he is adding a new store location in Godfrey, Illinois, located within the River Bend portion of the Greater St. Louis ...

Among the Illinois-based programs affected by Trump’s order to halt funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and other foreign aid programs are a lab at the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WILX) - Another body of water is getting a new name - at least according to Illinois. In a social media post, Governor JB Pritzker announced the changes come after decades of ...

It was the most expensive war game in US military history, and the outcome was a disaster. Conducted in 2002 and costing roughly $250 million to plan over two years, the so-called Millennium ...

The Trump administration sued officials in Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County on Thursday over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities, accusing them of ...

Pam Bondi, U.S. attorney general, before a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Photo: Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...

Twelve people, including four children, were saved from a party boat as it sank in a Texas lake on the Fourth of July, officials said. Rescuers responded to a mayday call at around 9:45 p.m. on ...

However, Chinese fishing boats have taken up the slack and by the end of September a total of 2,589 boats were asked to leave the EEZ, a 3.6-fold increase over the same period in 2019.