Gov. Pat Quinn's Illinois Jobs Now capital construction program will be used to improve roads in Iroquois and Ford counties. The funds are part of the $6.4 million to be distributed through the program to repair municipal...
An Open House in Vermilion County Thursday will showcase the University of Illinois Extension Unit. The event runs from 4 – 6 pm at the U of I Extension on North Vermilion Street in Danville.
Vermilion County Extension offers a...
Brookston and neighboring firemen in Indiana battled a barn fire overnight. The barn and hay and old farm machinery were a total loss. The fire broke out Sunday night and kept firefighters on the scene 'til 1:30 this (Mon)...
The mid-to-late summer dry period led to drought conditions in central-Illinois. But a few weeks into the harvest finds area farmers and grain elevator operators saying yields are good to very good.
Soybean yields very pleasing...
Police are investigating a fatal crash early Saturday morning in rural Westville.
Vermilion County Coroner Peggy Johnson reported that 19-year-old Nicole Harris of Westville was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:43 am...
Street talk and social media rhetoric about an assault in Watseka this week are unfounded. That's the word from Watseka Police. Police Chief Roger Lebeck states in a news release, The Watseka Police Department investigated a...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Harvest is in full swing across the country, and farmers in many states are surprised at the abundance of corn they're getting from their fields. Dairy farmer Ben Steffen, who also grows corn...
The vacancy in the top position of the Economic Alliance of Kankakee County is no longer vacant. Pat Martin has been named to fill the post recently vacated by Joe Franco. Franco had been the only chairman of the organization...
The battering of a student on a school bus in Pembroke Township now finds five people facing indictment. The Kankakee County grand jury returned its ruling against the five for Battery and Mob Action.
It was September 16th when...
Sheriff investigators in Vermilion County are looking into whether two people arrested this week can be connected to recent residential burglaries in northern Vermilion County.
Police report there's been an increase in...
