Category Archives: Local News

The North Side Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) is inviting the community to its Spring Open House Spaghetti Dinner on Thursday, March 26th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at North Side Grade School. Those atte...

The Williamson County Sheriff's Office and Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) have issued subpoenas to the Carterville school district for personnel and disciplinary records of John J. Wakey, a ...

Women are 27% less likely than men to receive bystander CPR, often due to fears around touching or exposing the chest. To address this, House Bill 4788, sponsored by Rep. Maura Hirschauer (D-Batavia),...

Olney Central College will hold a FAFSA Completion event on Tuesday, March 24th from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Room 205 of Wattleworth Hall. OCC Financial Aid experts will help students and parents file th...

Olney Central College Theater brings "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" back to the OCC stage for the first time in 18 years at the Dr. John D. Stull Performing Arts Center. This lively, f...

Just over 35 percent of registered Wayne County voters turned out for Tuesday's primary election, with all 27 precincts reporting. A total of 3,949 ballots were cast out of 11,117 registered voters wi...

All 12 precincts in Edwards County have reported results from the Tuesday primary election, with overall voter turnout reaching just over 29 percent. Of the county's 4,304 registered voters, 1,275 bal...

Primary election results from across Southern Illinois continue to come into focus, with several key races decided and others setting the stage for the November general election. In the Regional Offic...

Pritzker Reacts To Bovino Retirement (Undated) -- Governor Pritzker is reacting to the news that Border patrol official Gregory Bovino will retire at the end of the month. The governor posted on socia...

Update at 9:45pm Should Illinois opt into a federal program that would provide Public K-12, private school, and homeschool students with privately-donated funds for academic needs, such as tutoring an...