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The City of Watseka will be exploring its waste-water system to determine how best to serve the community in the future. The cost of maintenance, upgraded equipment and the knowledge of providing adequate safe-guards will be...

The Pilot Hill Wind Farm in Iroquois County is the subject of a lawsuit. Owners of farmland in Milks Grove Township had the suit filed earlier this month (June 14th), naming EDF Renewable Energy Company and Vision Energy as...

Criminal charges have been filed against a Jasper County, Indiana couple after their 12-year-old child was allegedly found neglected. Court records show the Department of Child and Family Services removed the child from Jay and...

An I-57 traffic accident this (Monday) morning at Chebanse killed a Watseka man. Iroquois County Coroner Bill Cheatum identified the victim as 38-year-old Claude Burton-Tiffany. He was pronounced dead at 5:16 am. The accident...

A veteran member of the Kankakee County Bar Association will serve as the first female, black judge in the 21st Circuit.  J. Imani Drew has been appoinred to fill a vacancy created last fall with the retirement of Judge...

Emergency responders report a tubing accident on Lake Freeman Saturday led to an arrest and one woman was airlifted. A Kentland, IN man faces an alcohol-related charge while an Earl Park teenager was injured and flown to an...

The National Weather Service confirmed at least nine tornadoes touched down last Wednesday in north-central Illinois.  Governor Rauner visited Pontiac Friday, saying we're fortunate there were no fatalities or serious...

Emergency responders in Iroquois County are looking into the deaths of two men found along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, near Goodwine. Saturday's apparent train-vehicle collision leaves questions as to what happened and...

Illinois State Police arrested a St. Anne woman Friday on charges stemming from a May 15th (2016) fatal crash in Kankakee County that killed a 15-year-old Reddick teen. 33-year-old Carmella Larson was indicted (Thursday) on two...

Cleanup continues for residents and businesses in Livingston County and other communities after the severe weather ripped thru north-central Illinois Wednesday night.  The National Weather Service cinfirms there were nine...