MILLSTADT - One person was killed around 6:25 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in a crash involving a car and a garbage truck ...

GRANITE CITY - An upcoming job fair invites community members to meet with employers.From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28 ...

RiverBender.com Week Two high school football picks feature Alton, Edwardsville, Collinsville, East St. Louis, and Metro East ...

IFT urges Illinois to use $768 million Meta settlement to fund schools statewide as Springfield weighs education gaps and ...

CHICAGO Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs marked National Dog Day on Wednesday by returning $28,000 in unclaimed property ...

CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 25 states, today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal ...

ALTON - State Senator Erica Harriss (56th-Glen Carbon) has secured $95,000 in state funding for the City of Alton to support ...

District 7 Preschool for All in Edwardsville earns ExceleRate Illinois Gold Circle of Quality, the state’s highest early ...

EDWARDSVILLE Edwardsville High School is ranked No. 115 among 984 Illinois high schools in the 2026-27 U.S. News & World ...

Aug. 27On Aug. 27, 1965, the two biggest forces in popular music met privately at Elvis Presley’s Bel Air home: Elvis ...

On August 27, one of the most consequential events in world history took place in 1928, when the Kellogg-Briand Pact was ...

Sunny Thursday weather in RiverBender area: high 85, low humidity, light north wind, clear evening, and Friday stays mostly ...