Gazette’s First Team All-Area boys’ tennis team for the 2026 season at Mattis Park in Champaign. From left, (front row) Kyle ...

St. Thomas More senior caps his final season with the Sabers by placing third in state and leaving his mark on the area scene ...

Joey Wright is a reporter covering prep and college sports for The News-Gazette and WDWS/WHMS/WKIO radio.

Former area standouts thriving at EIU. ... Illini football kicks off its season in exactly 11 weeks. ... Hardy, Dumont de ...

Lawmakers have a busy summer of negotiations ahead of them with pressure from both the governor’s office and their ...

Beck’s Country Shoppe initially opened at Five Points in Urbana in 1954. Co-owner Justin Davis estimated that the business ...

Juneteenth became a federal holiday five years ago. In Urbana, public celebrations have been growing over the last three ...

A Tinley Park man who was convicted of sexually assaulting his coworker at a local restaurant has been sentenced to a total ...

Recent Georgetown-Ridge Farm High graduate Tiffany Taylor will take part in an enlistment ceremony before the Cardinals host ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is testing the limits of his newfound political muscle in a bid to reshape the Democratic Party, even if it means challenging his own ...

Tropical Storm Arthur has weakened to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast. The National Hurricane Center announced that the storm had degenerated Wednesday night. It was the ...