The governor signed 266 laws on Friday, moving closer to finalizing his part in approving — or rejecting — over 430 laws sent to him by lawmakers this spring.

A new state law will empower schools to punish students who use artificial intelligence to bully other kids The law will ban students from using a digital replica to bully one of their peers and asking an AI algorithm to create explicit images of students.

A local group is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service that aims to block a proposed 70-acre logging project in the Bell Smith Springs area of Southern Illinois.

A new Illinois law will create a student investment program within the state treasurer's office.

The U.S. Department of Justice is insisting Illinois election officials hand over the state’s entire computerized voter registration database, including sensitive information such as driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers.

The Department of Children and Family Services violated state law, according to a recent audit. The Illinois Auditor General found 34 violations in the latest audit of the embattled agency.

A petition filed last week in Adams County Circuit Court to compel Texas state legislators to return to their home state to vote in a special session for a midterm remap of the state’s Congressional districts was thrown out by one of the local judges in the circuit.

President Donald Trump recently said his administration was considering reclassifying cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug and that a decision could be made “over the next few weeks.”

A newly signed law in Illinois expands the definition of bicycles to include low-speed electric bikes. That means those riding e-bikes or tricycles, for example, are now defined as bicyclists.