The emergence of nurse practitioners in County mirrored a national innovation that was launched by Loretta (“Lee”) Ford in 1965. Lee Ford was a public health nurse in Colorado, and she was active in ...

According to the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, at around 11:17 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, deputies located a stolen ...

A man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and will face deportation after he was caught with more than two kilograms of ...

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. -- A Crescent City man is dead after he was hit by a car early Wednesday morning in Josephine County.

When severe weather hits the United States, there are ways people across the country can prepare for the potential impact of ...

Sylwia Jarosz, 45, was riding her bicycle north on Wilke Road near Lake Cook Road when she was hit by a landscaping truck after a crash.

"We're able to swim through it altogether," Ford says, "instead of just feeling like you're out there by yourself." At ...

A dust advisory has been issued by the National Weather Service for multiple Chicago-area counties as winds of up to 50 miles per hour have caused blowing dust in rural areas. In the Chicago area ...

Nearly half a year after a mother of five was struck and killed while walking home from work in St. Louis County, a woman is ...

Chicago has the largest life expectancy gap in the country. As threats to federal funding loom, health experts hope they can ...

Fire departments across Central Illinois are issuing burn bans as dry conditions are about to be exacerbated by high winds ...

Illinois Republican senators have filed bills that would combat the state’s fentanyl crisis and further punish major possessors of the drug. One bill would reclassify a fentanyl overdose as a “poison, ...