Once a booming river port and Civil War stronghold, Cairo stood at the crossroads of history. Today, it tells a darker story ...

Juniors and seniors from Cairo School District #1 stepped out of the classroom and into the world of opportunity this week at the 25th Annual Southern ...

Water levels in parts of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers are expected to soon reach critically low stages in the face of ...

A lack of rain, particularly in areas that drain into the Ohio River, is leading to restrictions on barge sizes on the ...

Along the way, Peter Frank said he has faced several issues after basically being outside "24/7 for 15 straight months," but ...

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring ...

Patricia Diggs Lamburth, 82, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Tamms and Cairo, passed away Sept. 4, 2025. Services will be Sept. 22 at Crain Funeral Home in Cairo. Patricia Diggs Lamburth, 82, of Cape ...

The death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has topped 66,000 Palestinians, Gaza's Health Ministry said, a day before the Israeli ...

Illinois once harbored more than 8 million acres of wetlands. By the 1980s, all but 1.2 million wetland acres had been lost, ...

The Ohio River is more than just a mere river; it is also a source of life. The 981-mile-long body of water begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and flows ...

Blake Gerard’s 25th rice crop is harvested in September 2024. After floods threatened his soybeans and corn, Gerard switched to planting rice. On a late July morning, Blake Gerard zips across his ...