The Red Bud Fire Department, Monroe County Sheriff’s Department and Monroe County EMS responded about 7:30 p.m. to a ...

Emergency personnel responded about 4:30 p.m. Thursday to a multi-vehicle crash with injuries on I-255 eastbound near the ...

A group of 11 students from Gibault Catholic High School returned last month from a mission trip to the Dominican Republic as ...

Below is the farewell address of New Athens Mayor Joe Behnken, as Steven Newbold will assume that position on May 1. As I ...

While many races were uncontested in the April 1 election, one of the most notable items on the ballot was a referendum ...

Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois congratulated Norah Kettler of Waterloo for becoming a Gold Award Girl Scout – a designation ...

Waterloo’s parks are set to get some additional support from the community with the recent creation of a nonprofit set up to ...

The Millstadt Ambulance Service offered an update earlier this month regarding its bid for establishing an independent ...

The City of Columbia budget for Fiscal Year 2026 is full of red numbers but it’s not as bad as it seems, city officials say.

The Illinois House gave its approval recently to legislation that would give high school athletes a limited right to compete ...

The Republic-Times Athlete of the Week is the Columbia High School varsity softball squad. The Eagles have won 10 straight ...

An amended complaint has been filed by the family of Crawford Bryant, 15, of Columbia, who died as the result of a Sept. 1, ...