House Bill 1008 from Republican House Speaker Todd Huston would create a commission to study how 33 Illinois counties could ...

House Bill 1008, authored by Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, has been panned by Illinois leaders as a stunt. On the House ...

HERRIN, Ill. (KFVS) - A yearlong drug investigation leads to the arrest of four people in southern Illinois. According to the ...

The bill’s author, Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, said the fact that 33 rural counties in southern Illinois have voted in non-binding ballot measures to secede from their state led him to write ...

EDWARDSVILLE - Retired Edwardsville School Superintendent Ed Hightower has received the Outstanding Commitment in Education ...

A winter storm is projected to hit western Kentucky, northwestern Tennessee and southern Illinois Tuesday afternoon. The ...

Huston sidestepped a lot of questions about the practicalities of Indiana potentially taking in a batch of mostly rural counties located in central and southern Illinois by emphasizing his ...

The Indiana House gave a stamp of approval to Republican House Speaker Todd Huston’s bill that creates a commission to discuss how Illinois counties could secede from their state and join Indiana.

BREESE, Ill. -- A man dove into a frozen pond to try and save his wife after a traffic crash in southern Illinois. The crash happened Sunday morning along Rod and Gun Road just north of Breese, ...

Local officials — many from rural counties in southern and central parts of Illinois — cited frustrations over high taxes, as well as the wide cultural divide between rural Illinois and urban ...

Winter storms expected Southern Illinois is dealing with a winter storm that could eventually drop several inches of snow on ...

JCSO is searching for 15-year-old Alexus Perez of Carbondale. The sheriff's office believes she could be in the Carterville ...