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The Anita Purves Nature Center is the latest building in Champaign-Urbana to go solar. Solar panels are being installed this week on the nature center, located on the north end of Urbana’s Crystal Lake Park.

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Illinois lawmakers are considering a variety of bills that would change the requirements to earn a teaching certificate.

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Family structures—and farms themselves—are much more complicated than they used to be. Today, farm transition and land transfer are now among the hardest conversations families face.

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Some doctors see access to birth control as a tool in the fight to decrease maternal and infant mortality. Indiana has one of the nation’s worst rates of new mothers and infants dying, and those rates are even worse for black women. But a history of abuse has led to distrust of health care professionals in communities of color. 

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One of the largest non-tuition expenses for many students is the cost of living on campus. The price of room and board has doubled in inflation adjusted dollars at public universities in the U.S. since 1980. 

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A small but growing number of U.S. women are choosing to have their babies at home. In more than 30 states, including most of the Midwest, it’s legal for certified professional midwives – trained specifically in home birth – to assist them. Illinois is not among them; but the state Senate wants to study the issue.

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The Illinois State Police was under fire Monday for the state’s huge backlog in testing crime-scene DNA.

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Azark David Cobbs is a past candidate for the Champaign City Council and Champaign Unit Four school board. But this time, he’s running to be the mayor of Champaign.

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The Illinois Environmental Agency will hold a public hearing Tuesday, March 26, 2019 to take comments on a proposal by Dynegy Midwest Generation to construct a wall of rock along the Middle Fork River near the company’s coal ash ponds at the Vermilion Power Station near Danville. For those interested, here's what you need to know.

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not find any evidence that President Trump's campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election; but his report takes no position on whether the president obstructed justice, according to a summary of findings submitted to Congress by Attorney General William Barr.