The School of Applied Engineering and Technology at SIU Carbondale is cooperating with a Marion electronics manufacturer to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rend Lake is the largest lake in southern Illinois; the 18,900 acres of water and 21,000 acres of surrounding parks and ...

The conservative group Judicial Watch is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case filed by U.S. Rep. Mike Bost, ...

The Marion boys basketball team opened its 2024-25 season at the Jacksonville Crimson Classic for the second year in a row and came away with a third-place finish after losing two of its three games ...

Last year the headline at the end of the Marion football season was the Wildcats missed the playoffs for the first time since 2004, but this year the headline is the Wildcats returned to the playoffs ...

The first extensive public look at next year’s state finances contains a warning to lawmakers from the governor’s office: “The ability to fund new programs will be severely limited” next fiscal year.

Vernys May Smith, 94, of Marion, IL, passed away on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024. Vernys was born on Oct. 30, 1930, on a farm in Missouri, to the late Lily and Harry Lewis. She resided in Missouri until she ...

You feel it, don't you? Sunrise coming later, sunset earlier, and the roller rink of acorns underfoot. The change of seasons is well underway. And just as you are pulling out your flannel shirts, wool ...

Robert Lowell Eairheart, born on June 5, 1942, in Marion, passed away peacefully on Nov. 14, 2024, at the Veterans Administration Community Life Center, surrounded by his beloved family. He was 82 ...