Category Archives: Local News

The Centralia City Council Monday night will once again consider an ordinance amendment to create a city truancy code. No action was ever taken on the request by Police Chief Greg Dodson by the old ci...

Governor JB Pritzker is signing a new law expanding access to telehealthcare in Illinois. The Governor says the landmark legislation will expand on efforts launched during the pandemic to make sure pe...

Centralia's Interim City Manager Forest Langenfeld has set his last day on the job for Tuesday. The Centralia City Council Monday night will be asked to designate an administrative officer to perform ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has named a second Republican critic of Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to a special committee investigating the Capitol riot. She's pledging that the D...

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - A federal investigation shows the city of East St. Louis violated labor standards for not tracking or paying overtime hours for police officers. The U.S. Department of Labo...

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois is leading a handful of Democratic-run states in extending health insurance coverage to adult immigrants living in the country illegally, including seniors. The state was the f...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Two companies seeking to build thousands of miles of pipeline across the Midwest are promising the effort will aid rather than hinder the fight against climate change. Some en...

Story and Photos by Ben Watson The first-ever Centralia Summer Market was held on Saturday, giving the community a chance to shop and eat in the downtown area. The highlight of this event, however, wa...

Story and Photos by Ben Watson Beginning on Saturday morning, the first-ever Centralia Summer market graced the streets of downtown Centralia. With crafts and food galore, people were able to shop and...

Heavy thunderstorms dumped large amounts of rain and produced spectacular lightning strikes early Sunday morning. Odin Firemen, with automatic mutual aid assistance from Salem, responded to a possible...