Category Archives: Local News

The National Weather Service in Lincoln has issued a High Wind Warning, which is in effect from 9 AM this morning to 10 PM CDT this evening for Piatt-Champaign-Vermilion-Christian-Macon-Moultrie-Dougl...

Nearly Half Of Illinois High School Grads Still Leave For College (Springfield, IL) -- Almost every other high school graduate in Illinois leaves the state for college. The Illinois State Board of Hig...

Illinois House Okays LGBT Textbook Requirement (Springfield, IL) -- The next set of textbooks that Illinois schools buy may be required to have some chapters on the contributions of gays and lesbians....

Quad Cities Lawmakers Don't Buy WIU Cost Report (Macomb, IL) -- Illinois lawmakers from the Quad Cities aren't buying a new report that says Western Illinois University's Quad Cities campus is a drain...

Governor Pritzker Fighting Plan To Cut Great Lakes Clean-Up Money (Chicago, IL) -- Add Illinois Governor JB Pritzker to the list of Midwestern governors who are fighting a plan to cut federal lake cle...

U Of I Not Involved In Admissions Scandal, Points To Past Scandal (Urbana, IL) -- The University of Illinois' own admissions scandal may have kept the school out of the most recent scandal involving h...

According to Illinois State Police, there was a traffic crash resulting in personal injury along I-57 Southbound near milepost 237 in the early morning hours of Wednesday. Preliminary investigation sh...

Remaining 2019 Illinois Spring Turkey Hunting permits will go on sale over-the-counter on Tuesday (3/19) at 8:00 a.m. Since not all vendors were set up to sell permits on Tuesday, March 12 as schedule...

For Immediate Release ISP District 12 Announces February Enforcement Activity Effingham, IL - Illinois State Police District 12 Commander, Captain Cory Ristvedt, today announced activity and enforceme...

FAA: New Data At Crash Site Led Boeing Planes Being Grounded In U.S. (Washington, DC) -- The FAA made the decision to ground all Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the U.S. because of new data gathered at the...