Category Archives: Local News

The Arthur Cheese Festival kicks off tomorrow with events running throughout Labor Day Weekend. Tomorrow, the festivities begin at 6am with the Fireman's Pancake and Sausage Breakfast at the Firehouse...

....and The Final Is In: Western Illinois 38 - Eastern Illinois Universty 21 FINAL

155 years ago an up-and-coming captain was in Mattoon to muster local boys into the service of the Union Army during the early days of the Civil War. That officer is forever etched in our memory as Ge...

There is a boil order for the village of Strasburg until further notice. It went into effect at 12:30pm today (Thursday, 9/1).

September is National Preparedness Month and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) is joining with emergency management agencies throughout the state and across the U.S. to encourage people ...

The Coles County Public Health Department (CCHD) will be offering a walk-in Flu Shot Clinic at your LifeSpan Center on October 18th, 2016 from 9am to Noon. The cost of the vaccine is $45 for adults 65...

A Decatur child is dead and her parents are in custody this morning. According to WAND-TV, officers were called to the hospital yesterday afternoon where the 4-year-old girl was being treated for life...

It's another record-breaking year for international students at Eastern Illinois University. The school announced yesterday it expects over 400 students, which is much higher than the 291 who enrolled...

The state's prison population continues to decline and is now down by 42-hundred since 2014. Numbers from the Illinois Department of Corrections put the prison population at 44-thousand-680 as of July...

Illinois is experiencing a wet August. State Climatologist Jim Angel says through Sunday, the statewide average rainfall for this month was nearly three-inches above normal. That makes it the second w...