Category Archives: Local News

Here's the latest area river stages as of this morning: Little Wabash River east of Fairfield is at 9.15 feet, below the 17-foot flood stage. At Clay City the stage is 6.21 feet. Flood stage is 18 fee...

The City of Fairfield will be holding their rescheduled fireworks display this evening at Southwest Park. The display will be set off around 9:15 this evening. WFIW-FM will be broadcasting live from t...

Jasper Grade School District 17 will be holding their school registration on July 11th from 12-noon until 6 pm. Parents of students who have pre-registered in the spring will need to complete the regi...

Fairfield Public School District 112 will be holding student registration for students entering pre-k and going into 8th grade on July 12th. Registration will take place in the North Side School Cafet...

The Wayne County Health Department will be holding 3 school-age walk-in vaccination clinics this month at the health department office. Clinics will take place from 9 am until 5 PM on July 12th and Ju...

Wayne County Crimestoppers is offering a reward for the arrest of the person or persons who spray painted 10 road signs in Bedford Township with the instaluar AHA. If you have any information to the c...

The White County Sheriff's Department is investigating the theft of a side by side in Enfield. On Wednesday afternoon Deputy Matt Wicker was dispatched to Big River Solar and met with Benjamin Faulkne...

Illinois State Police have their monthly patrol reports. During distracted driving patrols in Wayne and Effingham Counties, troopers issued a total of 24 distracted driving citations. 20 of those were...

Public buildings across Illinois will soon be required to have water bottle filling stations. The legislation takes effect January 1st after passing in both the state House and Senate. Buildings with ...

Families who receive SNAP benefits could be eligible for replacements. Those who lost food bought with SNAP benefits as a result of severe storms in Central Illinois last week could get the replacemen...