An Illinois deputy came to the rescue of a pregnant woman whose runaway car was racing toward a freezing lake when the brakes stopped working – in a heart-pounding save captured on camera. The ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Ill. -- Southern Illinois sheriff's deputies stop a pregnant woman's runaway car from going into a lake. It happened early Monday morning in Williamson County, east of Carbondale.

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (WSIL) -- Westbound traffic on Illinois Route 13 near the Crab Orchard Lake area is currently blocked. A tractor-trailer delivering steel became stuck, obstructing the roadway. Crews ...

MARION — The Little Grassy Lake dam and spillway structure on Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) is now over 80 years old. The age of this structure is beyond its engineered design life.

On April 8, Illinois will be among 13 states where daytime skies will dim as the moon passes between the Earth and the sun and completely blocking the sun. It will create a total solar eclipse. After ...

MARION, Ill. — When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that Little Grassy Lake in Marion, Illinois, would be drained due to safety concerns, one of the first questions raised was the fate of ...