The Farm Progress Virtual Experience is bringing two top farm shows in the country directly to farmers. Area folks on the farm can reach out, virtually, today (Tues) thru Thursday and experience what they see in-person at these...
The City of Watseka will host a waste collection event this fall. There will be more details announced. Illinois EPA Director John J. Kim announced the agency is resuming Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collections in the fall of...
Illinois State Police have filed emergency rules and extended the time to renew Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) and Concealed Carry Licenses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The extension now gives FOID card owners and CCL...
Today marks 19-years since the airplane terror attacks in New Yor, Washington DC. and Pennsylvania. And 19 years later, we still don't poitive identifications for more than 11-hundred of the 2,753 World Trade Center victims...
It is going to be a cold and snowy winter in Illinois according to the 2021 version of the Farmer’s Almanac.The publication is calling it the “Winter of the Great Divide,” calling for cold and snowy in the north, drought in the...
The Livingston County Health Department (LCHD) is reporting the first bat to test positive for rabies in Livingston County of 2020. The bat was found in the 800 block of Reynolds St. in Pontiac. No one was exposed, and there were...
State officials are investigating two cases of Legionnaires’ disease at the Pontiac Correctional Center. In a news release, Illinois Department of Public Health officials said the two patients are in the hospital and are stable...
There’s been one human case of West Nile Virus reported in Illinois, the first case for 2020. The Illinois Department of Public health said the case is a DuPage County resident. It's a woman in her 40s who became ill in...
The final steel beam was put in place (Wednesday) for Riverside Healthcare’s new Orthopedic & Spine Center in Bourbonnais. The facility is set to open next year. Riverside CEO Phil Kambic says the infrastructure is in place...
A Northern Illinois University history professor says there are similarities between the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and today’s COVID-19 pandemic. At least 50 million people died worldwide from the Spanish flu. Dr. Beatrice Howard...
