The campus of George Mason University and the housing surrounding that area welcomed 2021 with increased water pressure, courtesy of a new 2.5 million-gallon water tower on the GMU grounds.

Maps have always been essential tools for making sense of the world around us. From hand-drawn sketches to today’s digital systems, they visualize space, plan movement and understand places.

Sprawl made suburbia affordable. Now it’s breaking it. Here’s what a new vision of the suburbs could look like.

The Supreme Court will not decide right now whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it enacted a congressional map last year that created a second majority-Black district. In a surprise order ...

Columbia researchers found arsenic in drinking water is associated with poor birth outcomes, and released data on nationwide water contamination.

Fire chiefs in the north suburbs say they need more resources for water rescues, especially as we head into a heat wave, after two people drowned just this week at Lake Michigan beaches.

Next Tuesday, justices will hear arguments in a challenge to the state’s Congressional map, which was redrawn after the 2020 census as part of the state’s redistricting process.

Denver Water and the Broncos have been in discussions about the utility's 36-acre campus next to a potential stadium site at Burnham Yard.

A suburban community is asking residents to conserve water and will establish schedules for filling pools, watering lawns and more in coming days.

Farm chemicals in south suburban drinking water puts infants at risk Water sampling results from the private utility company Aqua Illinois revealed nitrate levels from agricultural fertilizers ...

High nitrate levels have been found in University Park, Kankakee and Peotone drinking water and infants are at risk, health officials warned Sunday.

CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer was shot and killed Thursday night during a foot chase on the South Side; construction on a massive project to send Lake Michigan water to the southwest suburbs ...