A severe thunderstorm brought heavy rain, causing flash flooding and leaving thousands without power in the Rockford region, northern Illinois on Thursday, July 10.

More track and field success, the same on the basketball court and a breakout season on the football field led the way for Illinois athletics in 2024-25. Staff writer Scott ...

(WAND) — An Illinois urban search and rescue team went to Texas overnight on Friday to help with operations after deadly flooding killed over 100 people and left hundreds more missing.

CHICAGO — Illinois students won’t need to fill out applications for most state universities to be admitted — if they have high enough grades. With his signature, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on July 7 approved ...

The Northern Illinois Food Bank is kicking off its annual “Free Summer Meals for Kids” program. It comes in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education. That included a distribution this ...

Amid a cluster of top 10 album debuts this week, there's a left-field hit with staying power: the soundtrack to the Netflix original movie KPop Demon Hunters, which surges into the top five.

The return of EA's College Football game franchise in 2025 was met with excitement from an eager fan base ready to play as their favorite school, in pursuit of a national championship, and with ...

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Dixon's Saint Katharine Medical Center is one of nine hospitals "at-risk" due to possible Medicaid cuts in Illinois.

Gov. JB Pritzker signs two bills related to health care costs at a hospital in Peoria, including a bill that puts more controls on pharmacy benefit managers.

Today, WNIJ Host Jason Cregier and Illinois State Climatologist Dr. Trent Ford discuss what federal funding cuts to weather services could mean for dealing with climate change. Ford says it’s a ...

Two people were killed in a small plane crash Saturday afternoon in Boone County in northern Illinois. Boone County Sheriff Scott Yunk said, around 3:20 p.m., deputies responded to a report of a ...