Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release - August 19, 2021 Illinois EPA Announces Fall 2021 Household Hazardous Waste Collection Events SPRINGFIELD - Illinois EPA Director John J. Kim today announced the Household Hazar...

For Immediate Release - August 19, 2021 Statewide Payroll Jobs Up Significantly for Second Consecutive Month, Unemployment Rate Down in July SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Employment Securit...

For Immediate Release - Press Release More Than Ever, We Need to Live Up to Their Legacy Reflections on 20 years since 9/11 Over the past few days, I have had an opportunity to chat with several fello...

The Mattoon Rotary Club is collecting cleaning supplies and cash donations to help the folks in Gibson City, who were devastated by flooding. Items needed are: Brooms, mops, box fans, work gloves and ...

Thursday, August 19, 2020 at 2:30pm: According to officials with Lincoln Fire Department, the Illinois State Police are on the scene of a crash that happened earlier this afternoon at 1000N and 1420 E...

For Immediate Release - August 19, 2021 Lake Land College to host Career Day Lake Land College will host its annual Career Day on Tuesday, October 5. At Career Day, nearly 1,200 high school juniors an...

STL Grand Chess Tour Returns (St. Louis, MO) -- The Grand Chess Tour has returned to America's Chess Capital. The sixth edition of the competition at the Saint Louis Chess Club started Tuesday and end...

MEDIA ADVISORY - August 19, 2021 On student move-in day, EIU employees to picket for fair contract. University administration still dragging its feet after more than a year of negotiations. Today (Wed...

UPDATED: Bomb Threat Probe Ongoing In DC (Washington, DC) -- U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, DC say they're negotiating with a man who claims he has a bomb near the Capitol and the Library of Congr...

Coles County Electronics Recycling Fall Event 2021 Coles County is having a county-wide electronics recycling event on August 28, 2021 from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. It will be held at Lake Land Colle...