Voters in Iroquois County (Tuesday) will decide who will serve on city councils or village boards and represent school boards. The same voters will spin direction on how school boundaries will be decided. Local voters will also...
Iroquois County fire departments are asking for cooperation in controlling fires as the spring clean-up gets underway. Controlled-burns can often times burn out of control. But those controlled-burns can also unneccesarily...
Rantoul firefighters had themselves a busy weekend. They answered calls to four fires in a single day. One fire happened late Saturday night in Penfield where a faulty furnace was the cause. A fireplace heater was ruled the cause...
A third Illinois State Police Trooper has died on Illinois roads within the first three months of the year. Trooper Gerald Ellis died early Saturday morning after being hit by a vehicle traveling the wrong way on I-94 in Green...
The Newton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a body found in Jefferson Township Saturday afternoon. (3/30)
The victim is believed to be a white female, age is unknown. The body was found about 2 miles Northwest of...
Illinois lawmakers are looking to rush through legislation that would change the dynamic of a controversial plan to erect dozens of wind turbines in central Illinois. >>>
The bill has yet to pass House muster, but...
Gibson City-based Alliance Grain Company has acquired Herscher Grain Company.
The transaction was effective February 26.
The Herscher facility has about 1.7 million bushels of grain capacity with access to the Canadian National...
New unemployment numbers show the jobless rates have been rising across East Central Illinois. The January numbers are latest figures available from the Illinois Department of Employment Security and U.S. Bureau of Labor...
State Representative Tom Bennett of Gibson City is out of the hospital and back home recovering. Bennett was involved in a serious traffic accident last week in McLean County. He’s expressing his thanks to emergency responders...
The National Weather Service has canceled the tornado watch issued earlier this (Thur) afternoon. Storms have "rapidly pushed to the northeast."
The high wind warning remains. University of Illinois Willard Airport in Savoy...
