Watseka Fire Chief Dave Mayotte is the Illinois Fire Chief of the Year. The honor comes from the Illinois Fire Chiefs Association.
Mayotte will be officially honored at the Association Convention in East Peoria May...
A proposed Watseka lumber yard was about ready to pull the plug on its plans to locate in the city after airing problems with efforts to ready its building and open for business.
RP Lumber's Jason Plummer told the City Council's...
Five people were hospitalized, including two children after a fire in Kankakee.
The fire broke out in the 800 block of West Station Street. One firefighter was injured but did not require hospitalization. Kankakee fire reports...
The Career Connections Job Fair at Danville Area Community College (today) Wednesday invites the public to visit. The event is at the Mary Miller Gymnasium from 9 am ‘til 1 pm. More than 50 businesses will be represented...
Four vehicles were involved in a traffic accident Tuesday morning on U-S Route 45/52 at 11000 N Road in Kankakee County. Three people were taken to area hospitals, according to Illinois State Police. Police reported...
A 28-year-old Kankakee man is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his year-and-ahalf-year-old son. Keon Stokes is in custody also charged with aggravated battery to a child.
Kankakee and Manteno Police are involved...
A high pressure system to the north will bring plenty of sunshine to central Illinois for the rest of the week.
Temperatures will still be a bit below average today (Tuesday) as we climb into the mid 50s. By Wednesday, it's a...
Traffic deaths on Illinois highways are on a pace to exceed last year's total of just over 1,000.
The Kankakee Daily-Journal reports there were 255 deaths on the roads through last week - compared with 179 at the same point last...
Seven northwestern Indiana schools have canceled classes after local police received bomb threats naming some of the schools as targets.
The Lake Central School Corp. reports today's (Tuesday's) classes were canceled at Homan...
Authorities in Jasper County, Indiana have three illegal immigrants in custody, charged with the sexual assault of three female minors. Sheriff's Police report the three men, from Monon, are in the country illegally. The U.S...
