Farmers markets across region in full bloom
May 31, 2023As the warm weather returns, farmers markets throughout the region are back in business again. Visitors can shop for locally-produced food and arts and crafts. The Downtown…
The Bloomington Police Department (BPD) this summer will be holding its first summer academy for BPD school resource officers. The academy will take place over one week in July (exact…
As the warm weather returns, farmers markets throughout the region are back in business again. Visitors can shop for locally-produced food and arts and crafts. The Downtown…
Residents have less than two weeks left to have their voices heard about public art in the Normal community. The Town of Normal’s Cultural Arts Department launched a survey and has…
Creativity and passion for the environment have spurred on a group of volunteers who are using polypropylene feed and seed bags to help the Elkhart Pollinator Habitat. University of…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The career achievements of Illinois 4-H members were lauded at the Illinois 4-H Celebration of Excellence held April 1 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign. The Illinois…
Community focused, teamwork, and productive are words that Extension Master Gardeners (EMG) use to describe their Sow to Grow Garden project. This project started out growing fruits…
The Bloomington & Normal Trades & Labor Assembly (AFL-CIO) and the Livingston & McLean Counties Building & Construction Trades Council will jointly host a local candidates’…
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker began a tour of the state to tout the new state budget that lawmakers passed last week, stopping at two university campuses Wednesday, May 31 to highlight…
SPRINGFIELD – A proposed cannabis reform bill won’t get further consideration until at least the General Assembly’s fall veto session after stakeholders failed to come to an agreement…
SPRINGFIELD — In the final hours of their spring session last week, lawmakers approved a controversial measure that would give existing power companies in downstate Illinois, notably…
With the focus on last week’s “SCOTUS WOTUS” ruling re-defining what can be considered a waterway of the U.S., we devote this week’s column to conservation efforts in agriculture….
SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers in Springfield have unanimously approved a measure that would place new restrictions on the red-light and speed camera industry’s involvement in state…
SPRINGFIELD – The 2023 spring legislative session came to an end in the early hours of Saturday morning, May 27 after the Illinois House gave its approval to a $50.6 billion spending…