The St. Louis Regional Freightway welcomed 16 high school students, their school chaperones, and others on May 23 for a special FreightWeekSTL riverboat cruise on the Mississippi…
Courtney Dwyer, a special education teacher with Pathways School in School District 118 in Belleville, has received an $800 grant through Western Governors University’s (WGU) “Fund…
A “perfect storm” of issues has sucked $2.7 billion out of Illinois’ coffers, according to a state finance expert. Jim Muschinske, revenue manager for the state’s Commission…
SPRINGFIELD — The number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Illinois almost doubled overnight, from 160 cases to 288, the state’s Department of Public Health…
Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed Illinois state budget for fiscal year 2021 would allocate at least $280,221,967 for capital improvements Metro East Funding would come from…
Editor’s Note: Belleville News-Democrat education reporter and Report For America corps member Megan Valley contributed to this story. SPRINGFIELD – Hiring teachers is even more…
A total of more than 300 patients, at 14 Metro East long term care facilities, have contracted COVID-19 – with more than 40 of those patients dying from the diseases, according to…
A Belleville woman has been convicted on three counts of mail fraud for allegedly trying to obtain ongoing disability payments. Paula Klaustermeier, 53, is scheduled to be sentenced…
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