1+ week, 3+ day ago   (588+ words) DuPage officials rejected a proposal to have voters decide whether the county should continue to have an elected county coroner. County board members on Tuesday refused to pursue a ballot question that would have asked voters if the coroner position…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (357+ words) Astha Savalia, who graduated from Kennedy Junior High School in Naperville, will represent Illinois at the National Civics Bee in Washington, D.C., this November. Astha earned the honor after winning local and statewide civics bees this year. She was the first-place…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (761+ words) A proposed agreement under which 74 acres of property would be annexed into East Dundee includes a provision that would allow a data center to be among its future development options. Plote Properties has no immediate plans to build on the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (888+ words) The State of Indiana has opted out of the SUN Bucks program for the second year, which Democratic state leaders and educators condemned because it takes away federal funding to support hungry children amid the state’s billions of dollars in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (447+ words) TOPEKA, Kan. — A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about $40 million more to prevent future accidents....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1160+ words) Former Portage Mayor James Snyder has requested the release of grand jury transcripts that led to his November 2016 indictment, charging him with obstructing the IRS. U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana Chief Judge Holly Brady sentenced Snyder to three years…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1792+ words) GLEN CANYON, Utah — The tops of trees, dead since Lake Powell’s levels rose decades ago, poked through mud and ooze at the silent mouth of Davis Gulch, where the side canyon met the reservoir’s still waters. But just around a…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (830+ words) Arizona, California and Nevada announced a plan this month to save up to 1 million acre-feet of Colorado River water through 2028. That’s on top of cuts already announced by the three states and Mexico, bringing the total proposed savings to 3.2 million…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (686+ words) Nearing the deadline for bills to be heard in committee, the Senate Environmental Affairs Committee looked at legislation that would allow for more local regulation on carbon sequestration projects. After hearing testimony, the committee passed the bill to second reading…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1168+ words) BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are…...