Kaskaskia News

Everyone wants waterfront propertynow and in the past. The French were especially desirous of access to rivers in the French tradition.

Laura Fitzgerald, a teacher from Unity East Elementary School, talks to one of the many people who attended the Fall Education Job Fair on Wednesday.

Althoff at Belleville East, 6:45 p.m. Carlyle at Marquette in Class 1A playoffs, 7 p.m. Prep Volleyball Edwardsville at Civic Memorial, 7 p.m. Valley Park at Dupo, 7 p.m. Lovejoy at North Tech, 4 p.m. College Volleyball Southwestern Illinois at Kaskaskia, 6:30 p.m. Northwestern at Illinois, 7 p.m. Men's College Soccer Culver-Stockton at McKendree, ...

A Highland man in his mid-50s is missing and presumed drowned after he disappeared while swimming in the Kaskaskia River on his birthday Saturday.

Participants in the River City Racing Club International Model Powerboat Association-sanctioned race that will be held at the Mt.

The annual Horseshoe Lake drain in Madison County has been scuttled this year. Each year in July, Horseshoe Lake State Park officials drain the nearly 3 feet of water from the southern portion of the lake -- which encompasses 180 of the lake's 1,200 acres -- into the northern portion.

Staff Report MT. VERNON - A man was taken to St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment of injuries he received after his moped hit the back of a van on Richview Road over the Interstate 57 overpass just after 11 a.m. on Thursday.

The Genoa-Kingston Food Pantry would like to extend its thanks to those who so willingly donated food during the Genoa Days parade.

News 3 has compiled a list of Independence Day Celebrations in southern Illinois.

The first big bowfishing tournament on the lower Kaskaskia River was such a hit Saturday, more events of its ilk may be on the way.

The first major bowfishing tourney on the lower Kaskaskia River will commence Saturday at the break of dawn.

Members of the committee set up to determine what to do with the old downtown YMCA building tossed around ideas Wednesday submitted by Belleville residents.

Larry Thomason said he gets so much satisfaction from volunteering legal work for the less privileged that he doesn't need awards but he still will be pleased to accept the Robert B. Teitelman Distinguished Service Award from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri on Thursday.

During this bicentennial year of 16th President Abraham Lincoln's birth, 10 Illinois state historic sites, many with Lincoln connections, will open seven days a week this month for the summer tourist season.

A Chicago-area historian has helped the Tazewell County Museum and Education Center decode a Native American word that has been known in the Peoria area for a long time but not totally understood.