Amid an ambitious June 2 board meeting, Cambria village trustees voted unanimously not to release bodycam footage from an Oct. 16 incident at the center of months of controversy. The bodycam footage...

Southern Illinois University’s longtime summer tradition, the Sunset Concert Series, will return for its 47th season beginning June 11 with six weeks of free live music across multiple venues in Carbondale. This...

FiddleRick and Cash Johnson have been making music in Carbondale since their college years in the 1980s and ‘90s. If you haven't seen them around the Makanda Boardwalk or performing at Tres Hombres,...

Illinois lawmakers approved the state budget early Monday morning after slogging through the night, enacting new taxes on businesses and authorizing less spending than what Gov. JB Pritzker proposed in...

Tales of mysterious creatures have long been part of southern Illinois folklore. Now those legends are finding new life through art exhibits and community festivals celebrating the region’s cryptid culture.   This...

A dead body matching the description of Kameron Strabley, 22, was found on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, according to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Searchers found the body in the...

SIU Carbondale Chancellor Austin Lane announced in a May 5 email to campus that Marc Morris and Bob Morgan will begin serving as co-interim provosts and vice chancellors of academic affairs at the university.    Sheryl...

Southern Illinois and Illinois State were tied at 0-0 in the bottom of the eighth inning. Junior catcher Sydney Potter was on second after a double to right-center field. Sophomore first baseman Hayden...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with additional information, including comments from the Williamson County States Attorney and the Williamson County Sheriff, photos from Friday's news conference...

Junior catcher Sydney Potter dug into the box with the Dawgs trailing the Racers by two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Potter launched a ball over the left field fence of Charlotte West Stadium...

Semester in photos is a highlighted gallery of images our photographers took throughout the Spring 2026 semester.

Directly on the Carbondale Strip sits a building with a history dating back to the mid-1930s. The Yellow Cab building was recently renovated into a gym owned by So ILL Syndicate. Within the walls of...