Category Archives: Local News

Frontier Community College will host its second annual Bobcats Baseball First Pitch Dinner, sponsored by FNB, on Friday, January 23rd at 6 p.m. at the Fairfield First Christian Church. The event celeb...

Mild weather continues this weekend, however conditions are expected to turn quite a bit colder by the beginning of next week, according to the National Weather Service in Paducah, Kentucky. Temperatu...

Carmi Police report the arrest of two individuals over the Christmas holiday on various charges. Media reports say the first arrest came on Christmas Eve, when Carmi Police, along with the White Count...

Reports out of Jefferson County say a Centralia, IL man was arrested two days in a row in separate burglary cases. 38 year old Mitchell Finley was first arrested early Friday on charges of burglary an...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding residents about the upcoming deer hunting season in January. The season includes the Speical Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and antlerless deer...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has updated the South Zone waterfowl hunting season dates for the years 2026 through 2030, following feedback from waterfowl hunters. According to t...

Livestock markets in 2025 have outperformed crop markets, but agricultural economists at the University of Illinois caution producers not to relax their risk management strategies despite strong price...

Tuesday marked the 25th anniversary of the tragic event that led to the creation of Scott's Law, Illinois' move-over law designed to protect first responders and roadside workers. On December 23, 2000...

Registration is now open for in-person pesticide license testing sessions offered through the Illinois Department of Agriculture in partnership with Illinois Extension. The sessions are for individual...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has expanded the Senior Citizens Real Estate Tax Deferral Program, providing additional property tax relief for older residents across the state. The program allows eli...