Category Archives: Local News

Hamilton County Sheriff's Officials as well as Hamilton County Fire, McLeansboro Fire, McLeansboro Police were called around 6 Tuesday Evening to a car/semi accident on Illinois 142 at the Hamilton/Sa...

Doug Bunting was recently inducted into the Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame. Doug has been a dedicated 4-Hsupporter and volunteer for many years in Edwards County. He was the auctioneer for the Edwards Coun...

The Legislative Committee of the Fairfield City Council met yesterday afternoon at City Hall. The only item on the agenda consisted of a discussion to possibly grant special exceptions to the Trailer ...

The Village of Wayne City has scheduled the Fall Townwide rummage sales for Friday & Saturday, Oct 6th & 7th. To be out in the sales list, can can call Wayne City Village Hall by Tuesday, Sept 26th at...

The Fairfield City Council meeting this evening at 6 at Fairfield City Hall. Under routine business, the board will look into an ordinance, regulating, portable cargo container usage, they will look a...

The city of Flora has issued there police report for July 2023. For the month the department made nine criminal arrests, five traffic arrests, three warrant arrest headed out seven warning tickets. Th...

The city of Flora has released their July 2023, building and zoning report. For the month, the city issued seven permits for residential. Three of the permits for residential or for demolition while o...

The Illinois Department of Public Health is warning Illinoisans to take preventive actions to avoid heat-related illness. Residents can protect themselves from heatstroke and heat exhaustion with thes...

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency continues to invest in local governments and water districts. The Illinois EPA invested over a half billion dollars in drinking water and wastewater projec...

The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for the entire WFIW and WOKZ Listening Area thru late Thursday Evening. According to weather service officials, This will likely be th...