The Giant City State Park Visitors Center is hosting an “Explore the Southern Illinois Outdoors” event in October ...

The Southern Illinois region is littered with former coal mine lands; and with them, coal mining towns that have dried up in recent times. Some towns, such as Dowell and Carrier Mills, are seeing ...

Two Heartland projects from southern Illinois have been awarded an “Energizing Rural Communities Prize” from the U.S.

Find out the location of Southern Illinois Airport on United States map and also find out airports near to Carbondale ... These are major airports close to the city of Carbondale and other airports ...

A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...

ROODHOUSE The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced that rehabilitation of a crossing by Kansas City Southern ...

For the outdoor enthusiast, Southern Illinois has it all — hiking, biking, camping, birdwatching, foraging, hunting, climbing ...

The “richest town” can look quite different from state to state, with some being far wealthier than others. For instance, the ...

A black bear was sauntering around in the yard of her home about two miles from Cobden and near the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois ... walking next to a city of Belleville trash ...

Though it may still feel like summer outside in the Chicago area, days continue to get shorter as the seasons are changing, ...

An intense solar flare could spark aurora chances across nearly half of the country late Sunday night -- here's what to know.