Students from eight high schools in the Champaign-Urbana area will stage a demonstration Saturday to call for stronger gun control measures. The protest is one of hundreds of similar events happening across the country, including Washington D.C., under the moniker “March For Our Lives.”

Voters in Monticello School District 25 said “no” to a bond referendum to build a new high school in 2014 and 2016. Now, the school board is asking them to consider a more modest proposal to improve school buildings.

Some east-central Illinois students have the chance this week to learn about clean water and keeping area waterways trash free.

Monticello School District Supt. Vic Zimmerman says he'll look at renovating the current high school instead of building a new one, after Tuesday's referendum defeat.

Voters in Monticello Unit School District 25 will be asked Tuesday to approve a $40.9 million bond referendum to pay for a new high school building, and the renovation of the old one.