Category Archives: Local News

Farina Fire Chief Jed Goekner says flames were shooting from several windows when they arrived on the scene of a house fire at Hickory and Madison Streets where two brothers died on Sunday morning. Go...

Salem Firemen handled three calls Monday night and early Tuesday morning. The first call was to an out-of-control controlled burn on the Denny Kuhn property on Cumberland Lane on Lake Centralia. The i...

Salem Police arrested a 19-year-old Salem man for alleged domestic battery after he reportedly was involved in an altercation with a young brother. Tyree Wilborn of Charleston Road was arrested withou...

BCMW Community Services is now welcoming summer youth programs interested in partnering to support summer programming for youth across the four-county service area of Bond, Clinton, Marion and Washing...

The Illinois State Police (ISP) is announcing all 169 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) throughout Illinois, commonly called 911 call centers, have successfully transitioned to Next Generation 91...

There were 1,200 free Easter dinner's served Saturday thanks to the work of volunteers in the Salem area. For the second year in a row, the free dinner was coordinated by Saved with Amazing Grace, the...

The Greater Centralia Chamber of Commerce is happy with the results of the first Regional Business Expo held at the Kaskaskia College gym on Saturday. Chamber Executive Director Marcus Holland wraps u...

A 15-year-old Cisne boy was killed when the side-by-side he was operating collided with a semi. Clay County Coroner Bryce Henry identifies the victim as Owen W. Bailey. He was pronounced dead at the s...

This weekend was busy for the Salem Fire Protection District as they fought three fires and helped free a man from an elevator. Firemen were called at 4:19 Sunday afternoon to the Georgia Turner home ...

A vacant farmhouse on the Bob Grote Farm at 9002 Shattuc Road in rural Centralia was destroyed in a late Sunday afternoon fire. Centralia Fire Protection District Chief Ross Boshera says the fire star...