Produced by the Jim Henson Company in Sequoia National Park, the PBS Kids special leads a series of programs tied to ...

The state’s top transportation authority has been running afoul of Illinois’s wildlife regulators according to internal ...

The state Department of Transportation has sidestepped endangered species protections in  11 cases, according to public ...

A federal judge blocked Donald Trump‘s executive order that prohibited federal agencies from providing funding to NPR and PBS. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss wrote ...

A federal judge in Washington struck down part of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on Tuesday, ruling that it was ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a key part of President Trump’s executive order targeting NPR and PBS was unconstitutional, blocking the administration from denying federal funds based on ...

Hundreds of thousands of voters flocked to the polls Tuesday to submit their ballots for the Illinois primary elections. While some candidates slid into easy victories with zero opposition, others ...

An unprecedented number of Congressional seats and a rare opening of a Senate seat highlighted the ballots Tuesday night. The retirement of U.S. Sen Dick Durbin, the Senate’s longtime No. 2 Democrat, ...

Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly are competing with Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in an open-seat race to replace Senator Richard J. Durbin. The winner will be a heavy favorite in the ...

Clyde Jones, prodigious folk artist and the bard of Bynum, was born on April Fools’ Day of 1937 and died in 2025, on Christmas Eve. That his life was bookended by two holidays beloved by children ...

After more than half a century in operation, the nonprofit responsible for funding public media giants NPR and PBS will dissolve following millions in budget cuts spurred by the Trump administration.