A new study recommends starting alcohol prevention programs at an earlier age.

A source close to the case against businessman and political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko says star government witness Stuart Levine led a secret life of illicit drugs and all night sex parties, and may have a faulty memory.

An Illinois legislative committee has once again rejected health care expansion in its ongoing fight with the Blagojevich administration.

The bus crash that killed four students last week near Cottonwood has sharpened the debate over illegal immigration in some Minnesota communities.

Survivors and teachers affected by the 2005 school shooting on the Red Lake Indian Reservation are suing a company that had been hired to come up with a security plan for theschool.

The memo to Delta employees was issued as talks between the Atlanta-based company and Minnesota-based Northwest Airlines have been hampered by an inability by their pilots unions toreach a deal on integrating seniority lists.

In a recent speech at the City Club of Cleveland, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger discussed their latest book, "Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility," which calls for a new kind of environmental politics.

More than 1,000 builders, architects, and homeowners are learning about energy-efficient design at a conference in Duluth this week.

Now that the gas tax is going up, how will Minnesota compare with bordering states, and will the state lose business in border communities?

An unscientific survey in a district represented by a Republican who voted for the veto override finds drivers upset about the prospect of paying higher gas taxes.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is talking tough one day after the Legislature voted to override his veto of a $6.6 billion transportation bill. Pawlenty says the override vote has started a taxpayer revolt that will end on Election Day.

A cabdriver was robbed at gunpoint Saturday night by two men he picked up at a CTA Purple Line station in north suburban Evanston.

A south suburban school is taking unusual methods in a fight against the flu. Twenty-seven students and four teachers are out sick with the flu, so everything is being scrubbed down, in hopes of getting those nasty germs.

The last Northern Illinois University student to be released from the hospital following the deadly shooting rampage in a campus lecture hall prepared to head home Tuesday with a bullet still lodged near her heart.

Despite last-minute pleas to board members of the Grundy County Special Education Cooperative, teachers for the Grundy County Special Education Association plan to go on strike Tuesday. Teachers' assistants will go on strike Wednesday if a settlement is not reached.

A former White House computer expert said the e-mail system used byPresident Bush's top aides is a "primitive" setup that creates a "high"risk of losing data.