Category Archives: News

We may know tomorrow about Bloomington mayor Tari Renner's campaign paperwork. Bloomington's election commission is considering a challenge to the mayor's signatures. All candidates must get...

Unit 5 is giving up almost 400-thousand dollars a year in the hope that a start-up car company brings jobs to Bloomington-Normal. School leaders last night voted to extend Rivian tax breaks. Unit 5 is...

Prosecutors say a professor at Illinois Weselyan University had been drinking all day when he grabbed his gun and fired 13 bullets into a bedroom door over the weekend States Attorney Jason Chambers s...

Heartland Community College is the latest to give its approval to a start-up car company to move to town. The Community College needs to sign-off on the property tax breaks the company says it needs t...

Snow plows are still going to have to clear the roads and tractors are always going to have to mow the grass, but the Illinois Department of Transportation is hoping drones can take over some jobs. Th...

Leaders in Normal say they don't see the downside of giving a start-up car company as much as five million dollars in incentives and tax breaks to move into the old Mitsubishi plant. Normal approved t...

Former Congressman Aaron Schock says he is confident 'justice will prevail' at his federal corruption trial. Whenever it begins. A judge in Springfield set Schock's trial date for February, but few pe...

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner isn't saying what he'll do if the state gets to the end of the month without a new state budget. Illinois' six-month budget expires December 31st. The governor yesterday...

There's a new candidate running for city council in Bloomington. Sheheryar ('Shay-her-yar') Muftee is running for the ninth ward seat from Bloomington's northeast side. Mufti says he's a fiscal c...

Leaders in Normal are expected to approve a million dollars in incentives that could lure a start-up car company to the old Mitsubishi plant. The city council is scheduled to vote on the incentives fo...