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Thinking of falsifying your COVID-19 vaccine status with your government job? Think again. Rules now in effect require vaccines or testing for employees of governments with more than 100 employees. The rule states criminal...

A Sunday night crash south of Watseka left a rural Watseka man dead. 72-year-old Mike Miner was the lone occupant in a pickup truck that left the road and crashed into a house. It happened in Belmont Township along County Road...

THE ANNUAL TOWNSHIP/MULTI-TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 2:00 P.M. ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 20th, 2022 IN THE IROQUOIS COUNTY BOARD ROOM AT THE CLIFFORD BURY ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER, 1001 E. GRANT ST., WATSEKA, IL. THIS...

Information and forms for the Senior Citizens Property Tax Deferral program are available from the office of Iroquois County Treasurer, Kurt Albers.  The program allows qualified senior citizens to defer all or part of...

The Illinois Department of Transportation is hosting a virtual public hearing through Jan. 21 as part of an ongoing study assessing the state’s rail system to help identify potential improvements and solutions. The event will...

Iroquois County Sheriff's Police arrested an Ashkum woman Saturday on a Kankakee County warrant.  41-year-old Anna Munoz is charged with failure to appear on the DUI charge. 94.1 WGFA
Fire officials in Kankakee are investigating a house fire that did approximately $80,000 in damage.  No injury was reported from the Saturday night call about 8 pm.  It was a vacant house in the 1400-hundred block of...

The Bradley (IL) police Sgt. killed in the line of duty is being laid to rest today.  A funeral procession, including hundreds of police and emergency responders, are part of a procession to the Abraham Lincoln Nantional...

The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced Thursday 15,277 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19. According to ISDH, 1,314,688 people in Indiana have been diagnosed with coronavirus. A total of 18,794...

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 201,428 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including an increase of 444 deaths since December 31, 2021. Currently, IDPH...