A Burn Ban in Iroquois County will remain in place, despite some welcome rain the last couple of days. In a press release (Thursday) County Board Chairman John Shure said ‘conditions are still ripe for fires to burn out of...
Clean-up is underway in several Illinois communities after powerful fast-moving storms raced across the state Thursday. ComEd crews are heading downstate to respond to power outages, which are widespread and have left more than...
Fun at Kay and Forrest Parks in Watseka Saturday is a prelude to the July 4th activities and the Family Festival in August. It's a family-fun event all day with the Amazing Race including na scavenger hunt, games challenges...
Fireworks, food vendors, car & motorcycle show, and a grand parade are all part of the July 4th celebration in Onarga. And it's running this weekend, today (Friday) thru Sunday. Durham Park is the setting. A...
The Watseka City Council voted (this week) to increase the tax on alcohol sales. The tax is being doubled from 3 to 6 percent….the revenues, according to Mayor John Allhands, targeted toward the payment of police pensions and...
Illinois State Police investigated a two-vehicle crash in Vermilion County's Butler Township Tuesday evening. Two Paxton residents died in the accident, which involved a reported stolen car from Rantoul. Coroner Jane...
Local participants of WGFA’s ‘Local Scene” and up-and-coming musicians may want to take note ---- your chance looms to grab some stage-time at Kankakee’s annual Merchant Street MusicFest.
Local teen bands get another opportunity...
Paisley Griffith and Brayden McClanahan were selected by the judges to serve as Little Miss and Little Mister at the Ford County Fair Tuesday. Paisley is the daughter of Samantha Ferguson of Gibson City. Brayden is...
Two people are dead and four others injured after a head-on crash in Wilmington (Tuesday) night. State Police say it happened just before 10 pm on southbound I-55 near Lorenzo Road.
It was a wrong-way interstate driver who...
28-year-old Amber Dunlap of Pontiac was charged by Fairbury Police with Traveling to Meet a Minor and Indecent Solicitation of a Child. It's another police sting by Fairbury Police to catch up with those people talking with...
