It will be a calm and mild day today with a warm up on the way for the remainder of the work week. We are looking at sunny skies for today with a high of 65. Then, mostly clear skies for tonight with a low of 48. Meanwhile, we are looking at a warm up after today that will take us into the mid to upper 70's for the nex...

The Vandalia City Council will meet this evening. And, this will mark exactly one year of meetings for Doug Knebel as Mayor of Vandalia. Speaking on our podcast "Talking about Vandalia," Mayor Knebel says he knows one big thing they were able to get accomplished relatively early in Year 1 was filling the Econ...

Community colleges in Illinois could soon offer Bachelor's degree programs to Illinois residents. Officials, lawmakers and students all say the initiative would make higher education more accessible, affordable and benefit the state's economy. Proposed legislation in Springfield would let community colleges provide fou...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has ramped up his campaign for new housing in Illinois, and he expects taxpayers to pitch in. After announcing the Building Up Illinois Developments Plan during his budget address in February, the governor urged support for it on Friday at the City Club of Chicago. Pritzker said most of the BUILD Pla...

(Effingham, IL) -- Work begins today at the I-57 Neoga interchange. The nearly 55-million-dollar project will consist of the southbound bridge being reconstructed in 2026 and the northbound bridge being reconstructed in 2027. A barrier wall will be constructed on the northbound bridge to separate the driving lane and p...

We will stay cool again today. We will see increasing clouds during the day today with a high of 63. West winds will gust up to 30 miles per hour during the day today. Then, we'll see partly cloudy skies tonight with a low of 36. Sunrise today was at 6:14 am and sunset will be at 7:38 pm.

Now that the rain is moving out of the area, we will be left with eventually some sunshine along with cooler and windy conditions. We'll see gradually clearing skies for today with a high of 55. Winds out of the northwest will gust better than 20 miles per hour today. Then, we are looking at clear skies tonight and a...

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Storms return to the forecast for later today and tonight. And, severe storms will strike the area. The forecast for today calls for showers and thunderstorms late this afternoon. But, before that, we will see mostly sunny skies with a high of 82. Winds from the south will gust better than 20 miles per hour today. ...

Move-in day for the Fayette County Sheriff and the Vandalia Police Department dispatchers to the new 911 Communications Center is now right around the corner as the Fayette County Board heard on Thursday night. Fayette County EMA Director Ryan Scott and Fayette County Sheriff Ronnie Stevens both gave brief updates on t...

The Fayette County Board on Thursday night, approved a proclamation recognizing April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. LaDonna Koeberlein and Traci Baucum of the Sexual Assault and Family Emergencies (SAFE) office in Vandalia were on hand for the meeting and gave an overview of work that they do including numbers mat...

The Illinois Department of Corrections is facing questions over its failure to comply with state law as it spends more taxpayer money. The Legislative Audit Commission questioned IDOC leaders on Tuesday over 40 compliance findings in a two-year examination ending in June 2024. State Sen. Chapin Rose said IDOC and the D...

(Watseka, IL) -- A Watseka man is charged with murder in the death of his one-month-old son. The Iroquois County Sheriff's Office says on April 10th, Watseka Fire and EMS were called to the 16-hundred block of North Blue Bell Bend Road in rural Watseka on a report of a three-week-old baby not breathing. The infant was ...

(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois' unemployment rate is up slightly. The state Department of Employment Security says the state's jobless rate in February was five-percent, up one-percentage point from January. Non-farm payroll jobs dropped nearly 18-thousand over the month. Colin McIntyre/jb Copyright © 2026 TTWN Med...