Category Archives: Local News

Illinois Comptroller Wants To Slow Managed Care Move (Springfield, IL) -- The woman who pays Illinois' bills wants the state to slow down in its move to save money on Medicaid. Comptroller Susana Mend...

Rauner Tells Small Business Leaders To Stay Strong (Springfield, IL) -- Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is telling small business owners to hang in there. The governor used a stop at a local Springfiel...

Pritzker Launches TV Ad In Governor's Race (Chicago, IL) -- The Democrat's billionaire candidate for governor is already running TV ads. JB Pritzker yesterday released his first television commercial ...

HUD Secretary Carson: Cairo Decision Not Easy (Washington, DC) -- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson says the decision to close two public housing complexes in Cairo is a difficult cho...

PESOTUM - Illinois State Police (ISP) District 10 Commander, Captain Louis Kink, announces the ISP will conduct Occupant Restraint Enforcement Patrols (OREP) in Coles County during May. OREPs allow th...

More than 1,700 undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to participate in commencement ceremonies at Eastern Illinois University on Saturday, May 6. Ceremonies will take place at 9 a.m., noon...

SPRINGFIELD - Most emergencies occur with little or no warning, such as the flooding currently impacting more than two dozen Illinois communities. While most disasters can't be prevented, the stress o...

EFFINGHAM- Illinois State Police (ISP) District 12 Commander, Captain Cory Ristvedt, announces the ISP will conduct Special Traffic Enforcement Patrols (sTEP) in Marion, Cumberland, Effingham, Fayette...

(Springfield, IL) - The latest tax fear is coming from handymen and home builders. The folks who work on houses gathered in Springfield yesterday to push-back against a proposed tax that say would sin...

Flood warning until further notice for the Kaskaskia River at Vandalia, and for the Embarras River in Crawford, Jasper and Lawrence Counties Flash flood watch for the entire area from noon today throu...