WATSEKA --- While emergency responders answered the calls to two REAL events Sunday….other fire, police, ambulance and emergency management personnel were practicing for what could be an actual event.
mock drill involved...
New figures show unemployment rates improved last month across East Central Illinois.
Kankakee County leads the state with an unemployment rate of 12.9 percent. Despite that number, Kankakee County’ rate is below the...
The U.S. Marshall's Fugitive Task Force assisted Kankakee Police in tracking down a man accused of a shooting death in Kankakee earlier this month.
A 31-year-old Kankakee man was arrested Wednesday morning in Chicago in...
A 5-2 vote by the Watseka City Council Tuesday has triggered annual water and sewer rate increases for local taxpayers.
Infrastructure break-downs appear to be reasons for new revenue to overcome repair needs. But the No...
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Heavy rain, hail and reports of funnel clouds prompted severe weather Watches & Warnings Friday in the Illiana area. There were no injuries reported. Several reports of funnel...
A power outage left several Ameren customers in the dark in Iroquois County Friday. Ameren spokesman Leigh Morris told WGFA News a utility pole burned and the top of the pole fell. Why the pole burned wasn’t known, but about...
Three people were injured in separate shootings in Kankakee. The city police investigative unit reports a man suffered a leg injury when a shot was fired on S. Rosewood Avenue. Another person was injured by gunfire in the...
--A Fairbury man faces a charge of reckless discharge of a weapon after he allegedly fired at police in rural Livingston County.
Arnold Munz was taken into custody Thursday night. No injury was reported during the...
Thirty-two percent of Iroquois County's 18,559 registered voters went to the polls Tuesday. Contested races for county board seats in Districts 3 and 4 resulted in one incumbent losing.
Osborne Storm of rural...
Watseka special education teacher Josh Harms surfaced in a five-way race and defeated four other candidates to earn the Republican nomination for Illinois’ newly created 106th House District.
At a celebration with...
