Workers from Staat, Inc. are tuckpointing the 102-year-old Catholic Children's Home in Alton, enhancing its historic facade.

Alton Towers is offering half price theme park tickets to kickstart the 2025 season. The new season launches on Saturday 15 ...

ALTON - Aline Russell believes in helping where she’s needed.Russell, one of six candidates for the Alton Community Unit ...

From a role in the space program to Ax Handle Saturday to service with four Jacksonville mayors. Alton and Gwen Yates have stories worthy of a book.

Discover East Alton's history, from its origins as Emerald to its incorporation in 1893, with D.G. Tomlinson as the first ...

EDWARDSVILLE/ALTON - A decline in youth participation in organized sports disproportionately affects low-income and ...

A tire salesman, who twice got within a few percentage points of beating Tom Foley in races to represent Spokane in Congress and later challenged attempts all over the state to raise funds for schools ...

Alton junior Semaj Stampley (0) takes a jump shot during a Class 4A Collinsville Sectional boys basketball semifinal game on ...

ALTON, Ill. – Two teenagers are charged for a Feb. 26 shooting that police say targeted a kid exiting an Alton school bus.

Police said multiple people started shooting at the student once the student stepped off the bus, but no one was struck by the gunfire.

The Alton Police Department says multiple suspects opened fire on a student shortly after they stepped off a school bus in a targeted attack.

Lois Bowen Jackson of Alton passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at the age of 89. She was born in Mecklenburg County Sept. 6, 1935 to the late Algie and Mildred Wilkerson Bowen. She was predeceased ...