Category Archives: News

Unit 5 Superintendent Mark Daniel said Thursday hundreds of students again were late for school because of a lack of drivers. And he says he understands why parents are furious. Some buses were runnin...

Illinois' Medicaid program would be able to cover housing, employment services and more intervention services under a proposal to bring $2.7 billion in new federal funds to the state for the care of p...

Firefighters are investigating the source of a fire that caused approximately $130,000 damage to a home in Normal early Wednesday afternoon. The Normal Fire Department was called to 400 S. Blair Drive...

The McLean County Public Building Commission unanimously approved initial design concepts expanding the county jail. The Pnatagrapn reports the PBC is providing the financing and oversight for the thr...

Illinois isn't getting too bad of grades for health care.  Financial site WalletHub ranked the states with the best and worst health care in the nation, and Illinois came in 17th best.  The ...

Well, sorta. However Illinois is now home to the unexpected guests...armadillos. A new study at Southern Illinois University is investigating the curious case.One species, the nine banded armadillo, i...

Illinois State University is seeing a boost in enrollment.  Officials say the fall 2016 freshman class has over 36-hundred students, which is a one-point-five-percent increase over last year. &nb...

There should be plenty of pumpkins for pies, jack-o-lanterns, and chuckin' this year. Illinois agriculture officials say the state's pumpkin crop is looking good. Illinois is one of the national leade...

Illinois lawmakers have til December to agree on a clean energy package if they want to save Exelon's nuclear power plants in the Quad Cities and Clinton. Legislative leaders were in Cordova yesterday...

A two-vehicle accident near Pontiac has claimed the lives of two area teenagers. The deceased were identified Tuesday by the Livingston and Peoria County coroners as Jose Carlos Baeza-Padilla, 17, of ...