MARK RICHARDSON Illinois News Connection

Next week, Native American leaders from the Midwest will go before a United Nations panel with their concerns over a controversial oil pipeline they say is trespassing on tribal lands. ...

The once-every-five-year Farm Bill will likely be extended to six years this time around, as Congress seems months away from finding a path forward. The legislation governs an array of agricultural ...

Domestic violence and gun violence prevention advocates are urging the Illinois General Assembly to pass a bill to strengthen state laws protecting people who file restraining orders. The proposed ...

A set of controversial reforms to Illinois’ cash bail system went into effect this week, changing a decades-old system of holding people in jail until their trial begins when they can’t ...

A pair of Illinois state officials testified Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the state General Assembly’s adoption of a bill to protect libraries from book bans and other ...

A new student loan repayment plan is expected to help thousands of borrowers cut their monthly payments by half. More than four million student loan borrowers, including 142,000 in Illinois, are now ...

An Illinois group reported toxic pesticides are causing irreversible damage to young, developing bees, putting the bee population in decline and food crops at risk. Bees are pollinators, and ...

Women from some racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to have negative health care experiences during pregnancy and delivery affecting quality of care and health outcomes. A report from ...

As the number of electric vehicles on Illinois roads grows, so does the danger of injury for emergency medical technicians and firefighters responding to EV accidents. The auto industry is beginning ...

Women’s health groups in Illinois and across the country are angered by a pair of federal court rulings last week on the abortion drug mifepristone. A Texas judge’s ruling rolled back ...