Pat Bryant and the No. 21 Illinois football team has had plenty to celebrate this season: the program’s first nine-win ...

Just one day into her campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Friday ...

As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being laid to rest. While dignitaries are expected to attend, prisoners ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people are expected to gather at the same ...

A new tribal national park in North Dakota's rugged Badlands is opening a little-seen area of the dramatic landscape to hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, part ...

Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon 5K run/walk on Friday, April 25, 2025. Samantha Mabry, Champaign, won the women’s race ...

Zach Piatt covers high school sports at The News-Gazette. His email is [email protected].

The 5K run/walk of the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon will now start at 8 p.m. Friday instead of its scheduled 7:30 p.m.

Bob Asmussen is a college football reporter and columnist for The News-Gazette. He can be reached at 217-393-8248 or asmussen ...

Longtime multimedia reporter Kathy Reiser is the author of Kathy's Mailbag, which runs in full every Friday on ...

Illinois men’s golf coach Mike Small, right, talks with Champaign resident John Schumacher at the Esquire Lounge in downtown ...

Illinois' European pursuits in line with NBA, which features 125 international-born players (77 of which played college ...