Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release With Multiple Recent Crashes Involving ISP Troopers ISP Call on Motorists to Follow "Move Over" Law Springfield, IL - With multiple recent crashes involving Illinois State Police...

For Immediate Release Ameren Illinois asks customers to use less electricity during nationwide cold spell COLLINSVILLE (Feb. 16, 2021) - As Ameren Illinois monitors the extreme cold temperatures and t...

The Farms to Families food distribution program at the Mattoon Community Food Center has been canceled for Thursday, February 18, 2021.  

For Immediate Release - February 17, 2021 Compeer Financial Commits $1.9 Million to Developing Agriculture's Workforce Compeer Financial, a Farm Credit cooperative based in the Upper Midwest, has comm...

Springfield, IL - The Governor's budget proposal not only fails to address Illinois' financial problems, but it also keeps in place the failed policies that have ruined the state's credit rating and c...

In an interview, Senator Dan Bailey reacted to the Governor's budget address. Here is the full interview:

In preparation for tomorrow's budget address and the ongoing budget process, the chief budget negotiators for the Illinois Senate and House Republican caucuses, State Senator Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) a...

For Immediate Release - February 16, 2021 Gov. Pritzker Issues Disaster Proclamation Following Significant Winter Storm SPRINGFIELD - Governor JB Pritzker issued a disaster proclamation for all 102 co...

For Immediate Release - February 16, 2021 Public Health Officials Announce 1,348 New Cases of Coronavirus Disease SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 1,348 new...

For Immediate Release - February 16, 2021 Douglas, Wabash, Edwards, Massac, Johnson, Pope, Hardin, Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, White & Coles County Service Hours Effingham, Ill. - The Office of Co...