A jam-packed SIU Board of Trustees meeting on July 10 at the university’s Springfield campus saw the approval of a new 12-month master plan for SIU facilities in Carbondale, including the revamp of ...

2026 marks another year of elections in Illinois. The Daily Egyptian interviewed the two candidates running for the U.S 12th Congressional District Representative seat: Democrat Julie Fortier and ...

The Village of Cambria’s Board of Trustees, in a May 20 special meeting, swore in William Lo as the new village president. ...

Voting by mail isn’t new. The United States first implemented the practice on a large scale when President Abraham Lincoln insisted on holding the 1864 election and Union soldiers were far from their ...

A proposal that would expand access to a federal program that discounts the price of prescription drugs could end up costing ...

A dead body matching the description of Kameron Strabley, 22, was found on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, according to a news release from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. Searchers found the body in the ...

The Carterville school board voted Tuesday to begin the process of firing John “Jake” Wakey, the Carterville High School assistant football coach and teacher charged with nine counts of sexual abuse.

Junior catcher Sydney Potter dug into the box with the Dawgs trailing the Racers by two runs in the bottom of the seventh ...

Southern Illinois and Illinois State were tied at 0-0 in the bottom of the eighth inning. Junior catcher Sydney Potter was on ...

SIU Carbondale Chancellor Austin Lane announced in a May 5 email to campus that Marc Morris and Bob Morgan will begin serving ...