During the heyday of Westerns on television, the animal actors were ... started getting too expensive to produce going into the 1960s. Horses are costly to maintain since they need large areas ...

Winfield’s rugged good looks made him the face of Marlboro cigarettes in magazine and television ads from the late 1960s to ...

Cooler temperatures will be around this weekend in the wake of a cool front. We’ll see a NE wind today, at times gusting to ...

Rain showers will start around 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. Thursday in the western counties of our coverage area and continue to spread ...

Dry skies for tonight as temperatures fall to the 20s and 30s. We’ll get into another dry period of weather starting tomorrow. Highs will range from near 50 ...

Mostly cloudy today with showers building in this afternoon. Widespread rain tonight. Showers Friday morning, strong wind, ...

This morning, most of us are waking up to dry conditions across southern Illinois, but we are seeing a few isolated showers across our southern counties in western ...

Rain showers have returned to much of eastern KELOLAND this morning. You can see the view from our Falls Park LIVE Cam as of ...

but during the 1950s and 1960s, western TV was incredibly popular. Shows like Bonanza and Gunsmoke attracted large audiences, ...