Category Archives: Local News
Air quality alert in effect for area until 10 Wednesday night
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is forecasting unhealthy conditions across the state including South Central Illinois for sensitive groups for fine particulates until 10 Wednesday evening...
Jun 28, 2023
Marion County Board to study new county-wide tornado warning siren system
The Marion County Board will be hearing from three suppliers that could provide a new county-wide outdoor tornado warning system over the next six weeks. The Chair of the Special 911/ESDA committee th...
Jun 28, 2023
Centralia City Clerk and Assistant City Manager marks 10 years as city employee
Centralia City Clerk and Assistant City Manager Kim Enke was honored on her 10th year as a city employee at Monday night's city council meeting. "I'd like to thank the council for allowing me to serve...
Jun 28, 2023 Kim Enke at Monday night's city council meeting. Photo by Pat Hodges.
Canadian wildfires bring smoke across Illinois as well as Great Lakes region and parts of central and eastern US
By MELINA WALLING, MELISSA WINDER and TRISHA AHMED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns...
Jun 27, 2023 The Marriott Marquis, left, and the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, center, stand above The McCormick Place Convention Center in a veil of haze from Canadian wildfires obscuring the majestic Chicago skyline, as seen from the city's Bronzeville neighborhood Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Pritzker signs bills altering Illinois' health insurance market
The legislation authorizes state-based marketplace, rate review By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday that wil...
Jun 27, 2023 "Oh, I’m signed!” exclaims Sen. Laura Fine, D-Glenview, as she realizes that her bill giving the Department of Insurance new oversight authority had been approved by Gov. JB Pritzker. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Unemployment increases slightly in Marion County in May
Unemployment increased two-tenths of a percent in Marion County during May. The Illinois Department of Employment Security places the unemployment rate at 4.4 percent, an increase of two-tenths of a p...
Jun 27, 2023 Innov8social / CC
Police Beat for Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
A 44-year-old Centralia man was arrested on multiple offenses following a traffic stop in Centralia Monday night. Anthony Vescovo of North Locust was taken to the Marion County Jail for alleged aggrav...
Jun 27, 2023
Skid Steer destroyed by fire near Texico
Jefferson Fire officials say a skid steer that was left beside a driveway in rural Texico was destroyed by fire after heat from the skid steer started a wheat stubble field on fire. The fire was on th...
Jun 27, 2023 Zdenko Zivkovic / CC
Salem Community High School sees another positive budget year
The Salem Community High School Board held a public hearing Monday night on its amended budget for the fiscal year that ends June 30th. Superintendent Dr. Brad Detering is pleased with how the year ha...
Jun 27, 2023
Salem Township Hospital building project moving forward
Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian is still hopeful that the renovation of the former A wing into a doctor's office facility and the raising of the front parking lot can be completed at t...
Jun 27, 2023 Salem Township Hospital President Alex Nazarian
