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The Illinois Department of Agriculture has scheduled a meeting for 6 pm Monday (7/6) to provide information about a proposed expansion of a hog operation in Ford County. The Steidinger swine facility northwest of Gibson City is...

Iroquois Memorial Hospital in Watseka is announcing that Rodney Alford, M.D., Internal Medicine/Pediatric specialist, will begin seeing patients at the IMH Multi Specialty Physicians Clinic in early August. Dr. Alford graduated...

Lanes opened where possible to improve traffic flow ...... SPRINGFIELD – To improve traffic flow and reduce congestion for Fourth of July holiday travelers, the Illinois Department of Transportation today announced that...

The Kankakee County Emergency Management Agency is stepping up to organize a resource center to assist flood victims. Several organizations will take part Thursday. It's sort of a one-stop shop. The resource center will be...

The clock is ticking for area farmers as the June flooding has forced some farmers to make important decisions about planting. June 5 was the planting date for corn. For soybeans, it was June 20. The 25-day late planting period...

Indiana State Police report a two-vehicle crash Monday on an I-65 exit ramp left one person dead and two others seriously injured. The crash happened just after 1 pm on the Interstate 65 exit ramp to U.S. 231 in Remington...

The scheduled murder trial of a Milford man will not go as scheduled this week. 52-year-old Danny Murphy is charged with 2-counts of first-degree murder for the beating death of David Garrett, also of Milford. A defense motion...

After discussion in executive session today (Mon), the Iroquois County Board voted 15-0, with four members absent, to deny ratification of a union contract with the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees...

Fire departments in Iroquois County had a busy weekend assisting each others in three separate house fires.  Families in Beaverville, Danforth and Oppyville lost their homes.   The State Fire Marshall investigated the...

A two-vehicle crash near Clifton Friday evening klilled 18-year-old Brian Denault Jr.  He was a passenger in a vehicile driven by 17-year-old Mason Peters of Clifton, who's now charged with failure to reduce speed and...