Category Archives: Local News

The Centralia High School Board of education will hold a special meeting on Thursday, July 31 to discuss and vote on whether to accept an invitation to leave the South Seven and join the Cahokia Confe...

SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital has launched its first-ever Pharmacy Residency Program, welcoming two residents to its team this July. Libby Ahlers, a native of Nashville, Illinois who graduated fr...

Three Southern Illinois Republican Representatives have introduced two pieces of legislation that would repeal Illinois' Climate and Equitable Jobs Act and study how to bring fossil fuel power plants ...

Judge Wesley A. Gozia of Salem has announced his intention to seek election as a Republican to the Fourth Judicial Circuit in 2026. The vacancy was created by the retirement of Judge Douglas Jarman. G...

Salem Township Hospital has announced a CPR class will be held for 7th to 12th graders wanting to acquire those essential life-saving skills. The session will be conducted on August 11th from one to t...

The Marion County Sheriff's Department arrested a 32-year-old Salem man for alleged possession of a weapon by a felon and possession of a stolen firearm. Deputies took Thomas Wilkins of North Jefferso...

The Marion County Sheriff's Department has ticketed a Centralia Police Sergeant who was involved in a crash on his way to a domestic battery call earlier this month. Centralia Police say the sheriff's...

Salem Police say both drivers were checked on the scene for injuries following a Thursday morning two vehicle crash at West Main and Maple Street. Police say a vehicle driven by 78-year-old Melvin Min...

Three people were brought to the Marion County Jail on Wednesday on outstanding no bond warrants. 39-year-old Jacob Heern of Linden Street in Centralia was arrested on a failure to appear major traffi...

Local singers and instrumentalists have come together this summer to prepare Mozart opera The Magic Flute for the Centralia Cultural Society stage. The opera will be performed this Friday and Saturday...