After a fairly chilly last few days with some pretty cold nights, we'll warm up a decent amount this week. Today will be our coolest day of the week as we'll see sunny skies and a high of 71. Then, mostly clear skies for tonight with a low of 42. The warm up this week won't be big or dramatic. We'll be just a few deg...

This Wednesday will push pass the halfway point for the Vandalia Civic Advancement's Mapping project. Speaking on our podcast "Talking about Vandalia," Mayor Doug Knebel says meeting #2 this past Wednesday went well. This Wednesday's meeting is titled "How Do We Get There?" The meetings are from 5...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says there is disagreement about data center legislation, but he expects a bill to be ready for fall veto session next month. Pritzker said in Chicago on Thursday there has been a lot of negotiation and discussion over the summer and early fall. The governor said there is disagreement over some parts...

Leaders in Illinois are now suggesting a package of legislation aimed at increasing housing affordability and supply in the state may be kicked further down the road, after proposals already stalled in May after disagreements between stakeholders. The Building Up Illinois Developments housing plan, or BUILD, was recomm...

(Springfield, IL) -- The state Department of Natural Resources is pausing public meetings in northern and west-central Illinois. The pause, according to the department, is to prepare to discuss changes to Illinois' chronic wasting disease program. Specifically, the IDNR says it will be hosting public discussions surrou...

..FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 9 AM CDT SUNDAY... * WHAT...Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost formation. * WHERE...Portions of south central and southwest Illinois and east central and southeast Missouri. * WHEN...From 1 AM to 9 AM CDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetati...

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...