The United States and Japan concluded a weeklong disaster-response exercise that simulated a magnitude 7 earthquake, the ...

The 16-year-old Eagle Scout just received a national service award and scholarship for raising $35,000 and then distributing ...

Witnesses said there were a series of explosions that took place in succession over about 10 minutes. Jermont Terry reports.

Like many patients, John Kernan did not know he was bitten by a tick and did not know he had caught an illness.

The Bloomington-based insurer says losses from weather disasters in Illinois have exceeded reserves in 13 of the last 15 ...

Illinois homeowners face an average 27% premium spike as State Farm cites severe weather and rising costs. Governor Pritzker ...

Homeowner insurances rates in Illinois will increase by 27.2% on average, State Farm Corporate Communications told the SJ-R ...

A lightly populated stretch of Alaska’s southern coast was under a tsunami warning Wednesday after a strong earthquake was felt ...

CHICAGO -- Nearly half a million people in Illinois took part in an earthquake drill that was held Tuesday throughout the central United States.

Exelon Nuclear announced this morning that none of its six Illinois nuclear energy stations — including one in Cordova — were affected by the seismic activity in southern Illinois this ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic fluid pressures were higher.