The storm flooded parts of North Carolina's Outer Banks, including a section of the main highway. It's now turning away from the East Coast, but dangerous surf and rip currents are likely from Florida ...

Road work continues on Carroll Avenue and a number of other streets in Freeport that are undergoing updates to water mains, ...

The world's largest retailer — like many others — has been absorbing most of the increased costs, but raising prices of some goods.

The author of the YA novel Holes and the Wayside School series has written his first novel for adults. It's a fairy tale involving a princess and potions – but one focused squarely on growing old.

Dan Fesperman's spy caper Pariah follows a disgraced comic-politician who's recruited by the CIA. The Dancing Face, by Mike ...

Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, IL-8, stopped by the Rockford Public Library's East Branch as part of his summer listening tour.

One of the goals of controversial wolf hunts in the Western U.S. is to help reduce the burden on ranchers, who lose livestock to wolves every year. A new study finds that those hunts have had a ...

Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian cruise missile hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The strike was part of an overnight barrage of more than 600 drones and missiles.

A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school.

Pakistan is in the midst of a solar boom that has rapidly turned the country into one of the world's largest new adopters of this renewable energy source, according to data from global energy think ...

As people age, they may be surprised to find that younger folks don't understand what they're going through, but adult ...