We will experience our first, real fall weather today and this weekend. We do have a chance of a shower this afternoon, but we'll otherwise see mostly cloudy skies for today with a high of 55. Winds from the northwest will gust up to 30 miles per hour today. Then, we'll see gradually clearing skies for tonight with a...

The Sidewalk upgrade project on Sunset Drive in Vandalia is set to get underway on Monday. And, with that, there will be some closings in two phases of through traffic. Residents of Sunset Drive received this information earlier, as the project is set to begin (weather pending) on Monday, October 19th. In a letter fr...

After the cancellation of Tuesday's normal meeting date, the Fayette County Board held a short meeting with eight board members present on Thursday night at the Fayette County Courthouse and handled several items. The board pulled one item from its consent agenda for discussion and after conferring with Dustin Harmon f...

Illinois is one of four states that received a failing grade on Truth in Accounting's 2026 Financial State of the States report. Illinois finished 48 out of 50 states for financial health. Truth in Accounting founder and CEO Sheila Weinberg said the state's taxpayer burden is $36,900. The report said years of chronic u...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he does not get to choose where the Chicago Bears will have a new stadium. The governor spoke in Chicago on Thursday and was asked if there were any new potential stadium sites in the city. Bears officials said in August their sole focus is working on a stadium development in Indiana, but two mo...

(Decatur, IL) -- A Decatur man is pleading guilty to reduced charges in connection to a deadly DUI crash that left a local child dead. In June of 2025, Hassan Woods was allegedly drunk behind the wheel when he crashed into 12-year-old Kavari Drisdell who was riding his bike in a Decatur neighborhood. Kavari died and Wo...

(Springfield, IL) -- Roughly 700-thousand Illinoisans are now more than a billion dollars less in debt thanks to the state. The Pritzker administration says it wiped out more than one-point-four billion dollars in medical debt as part of its debt-relief investment program. The average Illinois resident impacted by the ...

We are looking at another wet day before much cooler temperatures are on the way for Friday and this weekend. We will see showers and storms today with a high of 80. And, then showers and storms tonight with a low of 46. Along with that much cooler temperature for tonight we will see winds coming in--they will start ...

The National Road Interpretive Center is a museum right next to City Hall in downtown Vandalia. And, many locally may not know that much about what they do at the museum. Jerry Swarm talks about what they have at the National Road Interpretive Center and what they can offer. The National Road Interpretive Center is a...

Both the Democrat and Republican candidates for governor in Illinois shook hands before sitting side-by-side for a debate-like appearance on Chicago area PBS station WTTW Tuesday evening, just three weeks before the midterm elections. Incumbent Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, sat down next to his GOP opponent Darren Ba...

(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is coming off a record-breaking youth deer hunting season. Officials say Illinois youth deer hunters set a record for the season, harvesting a preliminary total of more than 48-hundred deer from October 10th through the 12th. The total surpasses the previous record set last year. Top harve...

The rain is here and then cooler temperatures will follow that. We are looking at showers and storms for today with a high of 78. Then a chance of showers and storms for tonight with a low of 63. We'll see more showers and storms on Thursday---with a chance of a strong to severe storm in the afternoon-with a high of 82...

The Soroptimist of Vandalia are ready for their annual Bunco Night fundraiser next week, and they say today would be a great day to get signed up for the event. Mary Schulze with Soroptimist of Vandalia says the event is coming up on Tuesday. Food will be at 6 pm on Tuesday night and then the event will be from 7 pm to...

Brownstown High School will have a special event tonight to showcase two Co-Op student businesses. From 4:00 to 8:00pm in the Circle Drive in front of the school, CW's BBQ and The Green Creamery will be open for business. CW's BBQ is the business of Dodge Willms and will have BBQ sandwiches, nachos, and loaded mac and ...

The Illinois General Assembly has a new legislative watchdog after months of lawmaker ethics issues have been brought to light and the former Springfield investigator resigned. A former complainant told The Center Square he's not convinced a change in who runs the office will make a difference. In September, former Leg...