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Area residents will have the opportunity to learn basic principles of safe trapping at an Illinois Department of Natural Resources trapper education course from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, at Giant City State Park Visitor Center, located at 235 Giant City Road in Makanda.
State law...
Southern Illinois University Carbondale has earned a spot among the nation’s top nine Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business-accredited online bachelor degree programs in accounting as ranked by Online Accounting Degree Report.
With a score of 91, SIU ranked eighth on the list, the...
Frustrated residents repeated their concerns about the condition of a local bridge at last week’s regular meeting of the Union County Board of Commissioners.
The meeting was Friday morning, Oct. 14, at the Union County Courthouse in Jonesboro.
The focus of discussion was on an aging bridge along...
A “hunter’s supermoon” could be seen Sunday night in the sky over Union County. Leaves on a sweet gum tree were silhouetted by the light of the moon when this picture was taken. The National Geographic website explained that on Sunday, Oct. 16, the October full moon made its closest approach to...
WSIU Public Broadcasting, the public media stations of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, have partnered with Lindenwood University in Belleville, Ill., the Belleville News-Democrat and the Southern Illinoisan to host a debate between candidates for the Illinois 12th Congressional District...
Williamson County Sheriff Bennie Vick announced an upcoming traffic safety campaign.
Through the next several weeks, roadside safety checks will be scheduled during both daytime and nighttime hours in order to encourage safe driving through the Halloween holiday and the remainder of October.
These...
Many school aged children do not know where their food comes from. In fact neither do many adults.
According to a survey commissioned by the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance, 72 percent of consumers know nothing or very little about farming or ranching.
But Farm to School programs are trying to...
Jason Lindsey from Hooked on Science and WPSD presented an eye-catching pokemon science demonstration at Shawnee Elementary School in Wolf Lake on Wednesday, Oct. 12.
Shawnee Elementary students received a visit from some area fire department personnel and their equipment on Tuesday morning, Oct. 11, as part of Fire Prevention Week.
Firefighters Riley Webb, of the McClure-East Cape Fire District, and TC Schaefer and chief Dennis Wright, both of the Tower Rock...
Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump by an overwhelming 53 percent to 28 percent margin among likely voters in the 2016 race for president in Illinois, according to a new poll by Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
Libertarian Gary Johnson...
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