Category Archives: Local News

Centralia Fire Chief John Lynch says fire damage in the city during 2020 totaled $624,770 with total property saved estimated at nearly $1.9-million. Another $2.5-million of property at risk was prote...

State Senator Jason Plummer has been named as Assistant Republican Leader on the Senate’s Republican Leadership Team for the upcoming 102nd General Assembly. Plummer says he’s excited and ...

Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller is facing calls to resign and apologize after making comments that seemed to praise Adolf Hitler on how ‘Hitler was right on one thing’ when discussing...

A Mt. Vernon nursing home was evacuated late Wednesday afternoon when a fire broke out in the commercial oven in the kitchen. Mt. Vernon Fire Chief Kevin Sargent says the fire began when a rack in the...

If COVID-19 numbers don’t spike, Governor JB Pritzker says regions of Illinois may be able to lift some mitigation’s come January 15th. The State didn’t see a big increase in cases a...

Marion County Animal Control Officer Ken Ferguson (right) makes plea for help in enforcing dog laws to the county board’s Community Relations Committee Wednesday night. Also pictured (left to ri...

Governor JB Pritzker is lowering the age limit for the next round of COVID-19 vaccinations to 65. The state is currently in Phase 1-A, where health care workers and residents and staff of long-term ca...

The Marion County Health Department reported 40 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, but no additional deaths. Statewide there were 139 additional deaths, including a female in her 70s in Clinton Count...

The President of Highland Ventures Limited has announced all remaining Family Video stores are closing, including the one in Salem. Keith Hoogland blamed the impact of COVID-19 not only for the loss o...

Governor JB Pritzker is calling on Congress to impeach and remove President Trump from office. In a statement released Wednesday night, Pritzker says two weeks is too long for Trump to remain in offic...