Category Archives: Local News

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...

Hop on over to KC Summers Nissan Mazda for the Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday (3/26) Over 8,000 eggs will be hidden, and there's one golden ticket hidden in an egg for each age group to win a really bi...

Lake Land College is adding a new business administration cohort program this fall at the Kluthe Center for Higher Education and Technology in Effingham. Students will be able to take all of the class...

More than 3,000 participating officials will mark April 5, 2016 as the Mayors and County Recognition Day for National Service. As of the date of this release, 98 Mayors and County Executives in Illino...

The Embarras Volunteer Stewards will be working at Walnut Point State Park in Oakland this Saturday (3/26). If you have a couple of hours to spare, they would appreciate your help. Sturdy footwear and...

According to a press release from Mattoon Fire, at 2211 hours on March 23rd the Mattoon Fire Department received a report of a structure fire in an apartment building located at 1817 South 9th Street ...

The Lake Land College Adult Week celebration is scheduled for April 18th through 22nd. During this week, Lake Land will hold two events designed exclusively to invite adult students to explore their o...

No University of Illinois students or staff in Belgium are hurt following terrorist attacks in Brussels. School officials say 53-students and four professors with the study abroad program are safe. At...

Illinois now stands alone in the nation as the state without a budget. Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor Tom Wolf today said he would not veto a Republican-passed spending package, thus ending nine m...