With a difficult year of budgeting ahead, the city of Springfield is calling in some help.

The Illinois Department of Public Health announced 3,629 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, including 27 additional deaths.

The Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission this week will consider a request from a recreational cannabis company to construct the capital city's first craft grow cultivation center and transporter facility.

A new community initiative is seeking out ideas both big and small about Springfield's future.

An email newsletter blasted out Friday from Downtown Springfield, Inc. began like this: "The reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated.

In case you missed it, Gov.

AUBURN - Auburn High School senior Emma West could hardly bear the wait.

QUINCY - Agnes Cross seized the moment at the right time in the girls tennis season.

Rochester High School's Matt Herren and Colleen Zeibert won the boys and girls races, respectively, to lead the Rockets to victory in a pair of quadrangular cross country meets on Saturday at Lincoln Park.