Category Archives: Local News

With grilling season in full swing, the Wayne County Health Department recently shared tips on how to have a safe and health summer of grilled foods off the grill. The say, to scrub grates and surface...

Funding is 100% now in place for the Wayne County Senior Citizens Center. According to the group's Facebook Page, they made the announcement last night that they have all of the needed funds to comple...

Today is opening day for the Mount Erie Farmers Market. The market will be open June thru August from 8 AM until 12-noon at the Mount Erie Ruritan Pavilion. For more info on the market, you can check ...

Governor Pritzker will be in Freeport today to promote the proposed state budget. Pritzker will be making a stop at Blackhawk Elementary School. The 50-billion-dollar budget was approved by lawmakers ...

A number of Illinois residents will be receiving a portion of Google's 100-million-dollar class-action settlement over violations of state privacy law. Residents who filed a claim will get around 95-d...

The Illinois Department of Public Health will be providing more than one-thousand HEPA purifiers to Illinois Head Start and Early Head Start programs around the state. The devices are designed to help...

More than 12-million-dollars in grants is being awarded to applicants for electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Illinois. The grants will fund 348 new Direct Current Fast Charging ports at 87 lo...

A Boil Order remains in place for portions of Fairfield. Those on the South Side of Dorris Drive, on the North Side of Young Drive, and all others that were affected by the water outage on Friday are ...

A traffic stop led to the arrest of a Grayville woman on Thursday. The traffic stop took place on Rosewood Lane in Fairfield. During the stop, officers found 9 grams of suspected meth on the driver, 2...

Olney City Police and Richland County Sheriff's Deputies were called to the scene of a shots fired call Saturday Evening. The call came in around 6:00 pm for shots fired in 800 block of East Lafayette...