Category Archives: Local News

National Weather Service Officials are calling for a warmup with potential record highs Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Looking at the temperature readings for those days, weather service officials a...

Citizens National Bank of Albion is reporting that a 2nd round of fraudulent Internet banking text messages has just been reported. According to CNB Albion, the fraudulent message says, Citizens Natio...

West Salem Grade School parents are urged to pre-register children who will be attending kindergarten during the 2024-2025 school year. This is for children who will be 5 years of age prior to, or on,...

Sparklight, a leading broadband communications provider, invites schools and organizations serving K-12 students to enter its 6th annual "Dream Bigger" contest for the opportunity to win $2,500 for th...

Illinois lawmakers are considering the legalization of psilocybin [[ sai-luh-SAI-bn ]]mushrooms for medicinal use in the state. State Senator Rachel Ventura introduced the bill, pointing to research s...

Reviews of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s budget plan for Illinois are split along party lines. Democratic State Senator Dave Koehler supports the governor’s idea of increasing consumer protecti...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital honors an employee each month who has been nominated by their peers for providing extraordinary patient care and customer services within and outside of the Hospital. Yolan...

The Village of Wayne City has scheduled the Spring Town-wide rummage sales for Friday & Saturday, May 3rd & 4th. To be put on the sales list. you need to call Wayne City Village Hall by Tues...

The McLeansboro Police Department has introduced their newly hired School Resource Officer Patrolman Anthony Amato to the community. Amato will cover the school facilities within McLeansboro, which in...

A once-in-a-lifetime emergence of two broods of cicadas will make for an especially noisy spring — and some areas of Illinois will be hit harder than others. Researchers say in some areas of cen...