Category Archives: Local News

Raymond Poe, Acting Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, will officially kick off the community garden growing season on Monday, April 4. A ribbon cutting will be held to mark the start...

Justice Jingmin Zhai, vice president of the Beijing Supreme Court, will speak through an interpreter on the rule of law in China when he visits Eastern Illinois University. The forum will take place a...

Governor Bruce Rauner today submitted a request for U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) assistance to help people and businesses in Christian and Iroquois counties recover from severe storms and ...

A settlement has been reached with two sham cancer charities over allegations that the groups used millions of dollars in donations for personal use. The settlement with Cancer Fund of America Inc. an...

The Illinois State Police (ISP) District 12 has released enforcement figures from the Occupant Restraint Enforcement Patrols which were conducted on Thursday, March 17th in Clay and Richland Counties....

Coles County Clerk Sue Rennels announced today that all Election Authorities were recently advised by the Illinois State Board of Elections of a mailing from the Voter Participation Center, (VPA), Chi...

There will be a fundraiser event put on by the Support EIU Employees group on April 30th to help fund those who were laid off by EIU amidst the states ongoing budget deadlock which has caused a lack o...

Illinois is one of several states taking part in a settlement that'll end two sham charities that focused on cancer patients. Illinois' attorney general says the Cancer Fund of America and Cancer Supp...

Excellent farmland is still selling for over eleven-thousand-dollars an acre in Illinois, but prices have dipped a bit. A new report from the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers says land p...

"What Women Want" returns to Charleston April 14th. This girls night out will feature a spring marketplace, filled with handmade goods, jewelry, rustic home dcor, clothing, flowers, beauty products an...