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Three hundred species, four months of buzzing around your back porch, and not a single one of them will bite you.

Most people grab gas whenever the tank gets low, but there's a pattern hiding in those price signs that could save a real chunk of change over time.

That hazy sky over Rockford isn't going anywhere just yet. Light winds kept the smoke closer to the ground overnight, and air quality is still at unhealthy levels.

That campfire smell in the air this week isn't coming from your neighbor's backyard — it's traveled hundreds of miles from Canada, and today might be the worst of it.

Most people think tick season ends when summer does. In Northern Illinois, that assumption can get you into trouble.

If you've spotted a turkey hen lately with a bunch of tiny fluffballs trailing behind her, you're actually watching one of Illinois wildlife's quiet comeback stories play out in real time.

It started with a stomachache. For hundreds of people across Illinois, that stomachache turned into something that lasted weeks.

Illinois just added a new state symbol, and it hums. The black-and-gold bumblebee is now officially part of the list — alongside popcorn, pumpkin pie, and yes, a state microbe.

Most summers in Rockford bring around 15 days at 90 degrees or above. But there was a stretch back in 1916 where that kind of heat just never let up — for three straight weeks.

With a heat wave rolling in next week, someone asked a question that probably more drivers have wondered about than would admit it.