Following up on an earlier committee vote, the Watseka City Council this week voted to increase water and sewer rates.
A graduated rate hike begins May 1st and will increase each year thru 2016. The City Council voted 4-2...
--National Severe Weather Preparedness Week April 22 – 28
WATSEKA---Iroquois County officials plan a double test of community emergency sirens on Tuesday, May 1st.
The testing will be in conjunction...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An Illinois state registry for first-degree murder convicts has topped 500 people.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports convicts who have completed their sentences and been released are on the...
— Listening to a weather radio is probably a good idea today. Threatening weather is possible.
The National Weather Service (NWS) reports T-storms, gusty winds and hail are in the forecast for parts of the...
Kankakee County Sheriff’s Police have announced an arrest in last Monday's shooting death of 32-year-old Tawayne Sharp.
27-year-old Corey Gardner of Kankakee was arrested early Saturday morning when he turned himself into...
KANKAKEE -- Illinois State Police arrested a Peotone man Tuesday after he committed a lewd act in the Kankakee State Park.
Sixty-year-old Ronald C. Noble was jailed at the Jerome Combs Detention Center on a charge of...
The Kankakee County State’s Attorney’s Office reports a 61-year-old Herscher man is accused of sexually abusing two young relatives.
Charles Baker was arrested March 16th and charged with a Class 1 felony of criminal...
WATSEKA -- In Iroquois Circuit Court Tuesday, two Kankakee men facing felony theft charges from the Iroquois Paving Corporation were allowed to bond out of jail while a Champaign man facing a DUI charge agreed to a 30-month...
31-year-old Luther Starkey appeared in Kankakee Circuit Court Tuesday where he entered a ‘not guilty’ plea to murder and attempted murder. Starkey remains jailed in the Jerome Combs Detention Center on a one-million dollar...
Sunday afternoon’s shooting victim in Kankakee has died. 27-year-old Jerome Lucius was pronounced dead Monday afternoon at Riverside Medical Center. WGFA News reported Tuesday that Lucius had died, but Kankakee County...
