Category Archives: Local News

The Embarras River Basin Agency, Inc. (ERBA), in cooperation with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), through the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), is granting sc...

The National Weather Service has issued two Hazardous Weather Outlook statements for our Illinois listening area.   This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Illinois and east cen...

Flash Flood Statement National Weather Service St Louis MO 625 AM CDT Mon Aug 12 2019 ILC005-027-051-117-121-135-121530- /O.CON.KLSX.FF.W.0034.000000T0000Z-190812T1530Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.00000...

Illinois Municipalities Seek Clarifications On Recreational Marijuana Legalization (Springfield, IL) -- The Illinois Municipal League is seeking clarifications on the upcoming recreational marijuana l...

Governor Pritzker Signs LGBT Lessons Law (Springfield, IL) -- Schools in Illinois have one year to figure out how to highlight the contributions of gays and lesbians. Governor JB Pritzker on Friday si...

Former Illinois Governor, Son Set Out From Quad Cities (Rock Island, IL) -- Pat Quinn isn't running for anything, but he is walking for a cause. The former Illinois governor yesterday started a 190-mi...

Memorial Service Honors Life Of Yingying Zhang (Savoy, IL) -- Yingying Zhang is being remembered. A memorial service for Zhang took place Friday at First Baptist Church in Savoy, as a joint effort wit...

ISP Not Ready To Issue Required Certifications To Gun Dealers (Springfield, IL) -- The Illinois State Police are not ready to issue now-required certifications to gun dealers. The agency was supposed ...

The Coles County Coroner's office says the victims in a suspected murder-suicide are husband and wife. Joseph and Rachel McFarland were found shot to death Friday night inside a home on the 800-block ...

Report from the Mattoon Police Department: On Friday night at 11:55, Mattoon police were dispatched to the 800 block of Oklahoma Avenue in regards to a reported homicide. Upon arrival, officers discov...