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WILLMAR — The Willmar School Board on Monday approved three bids totaling around $1.4 million for projects set to take place this summer at the Willmar Middle School. Two major projects are planned: ...

Iliza Shlesinger in "Chasing Summer" by Josephine Decker, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute/Eric Branco/Summer 2001 LLC) Iliza Shlesinger and ...

In 1959, the US Army drafted a declassified plan so extreme it sounds unreal: a manned military outpost on the Moon. Project Horizon wasn’t just about exploration — it was about dominance, ...

With beans roasted where “the stars at night are big and bright,” Summer Moon Coffee made its Illinois debut in Crystal Lake. “Most coffee is roasted over a gas flame, and ours is over an open flame ...

Students were forced to leave campus at Ligon Middle School on Tuesday due to 'a potential threat,' according to school officials. They waited outside for less than an hour. After the gymnasium was ...

Hoping to see the first supermoon of 2026? This weekend was the time because the next full moon peaked early Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in the constellation Gemini — just at the peak of the Quadrantid ...

The astrology of 2026 starts with a bang, as the year’s first full moon rises on Jan. 3, immediately plunging everyone into its vortex of buzzy energy and powerful emotions. This lunation is also ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth traveling for. In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions ...

A resident reported Nov. 17 that three days earlier, their home security camera captured an unidentified woman walking up their driveway with her buttocks exposed around 2:30 p.m. Upon further review ...

Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves teamed up for a new ad campaign for Pantalones Tequila. In the ad, they both went totally pantsless and howled at the moon. The couple previously has previously ...