The $186 million contract amendment with PCL Construction Services was approved unanimously Monday night. Here’s what you need to know.

The new Republic Branch Library is open to the public, doubling its previous size and offering new amenities. The library, at 921 N. Lindsey Ave., opened Feb. 2, according to a community announcement.

Last February, the East Baton Rouge Library asked the Metro Council to defy the mayor and renew its 10-year tax, igniting months of negotiations and an eventual compromise to return some library ...

Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding ...

Des Moines Public Library is celebrating the 30th aniversary of Pokemon with a scavenger hunt at each branch.

The Illinois Republican Party has blasted as "divisive" the hiring language the Obama Foundation is using for the Obama Presidential Center, arguing it shows the privately run project is using public ...

STANWOOD, Wash. — Megan Dascher-Watkins always keeps her mom's memory close at heart. Jill Burton-Dascher died in 2021. "I miss her so much," Dascher-Watkins said. When Dascher-Watkins was planning ...

“We the people” need to heed the words of President Obama. “We the people” need to keep our country for the people. All the people. “We the people” need to elect people who believe in unity, not ...

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The Obama Presidential Center is breaking its silence after years of criticism over its unconventional design, with an Obama Foundation official now addressing public questions about the project.

Former President Obama was in the Windy City to check on the progress of the nearly finished Barack Obama Presidential Library. Former President Barack Obama made a holiday pop-up visit to a Chicago ...

Students at a library in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood got a special surprise Tuesday from former President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama surprised the kids at the Bessie Coleman branch of the Chicago ...