We will see our coldest day so far this season today. We are looking at partly sunny skies for today with a high of just 21. Then, partly cloudy and very cold tonight with a low of 8. Meanwhile, we will get a "warm up" coming on Friday and Saturday, as we'll get above freezing on both days. We are looking t...

State Senator Jason Plummer hosted his Annual Youth Advisory Council at the Kaskaskia College Vandalia Education Center. Senator Plummer says he loves the numbers that the district always produces. Senator Plummers' Youth Advisory Council included schools from all 11 counties of Senator Plummer's 55th State Senate Dist...

Multiple topics were discussed at the December Saint Elmo City Council Meeting. The first item that was discussed was the hiring of a new lawyer for the City. With the current Lawyer, Richard Day, retiring at the end of the month, the Council agreed to hire Taylor Law Office from Effingham. The Council then voted on th...

Governor J.B. Pritzker is pushing back against the Trump Administration's insistence that states share data with the federal government about who is getting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds. Tuesday, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins told President Trump they are preparing to withhold federal taxpayer funds ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation to expand vaccine access in Illinois, but a Republican lawmaker and medical doctor says the bill is an example of "Trump Derangement Syndrome." The governor signed House Bill 767 in Chicago Tuesday to expand vaccine access and further empower the Illinois Department o...

(Chicago, IL) -- Illinois will be celebrating America's 250th Anniversary next year. Speaking at Navy Pier yesterday, Governor Pritzker announced a series of statewide initiatives to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. The Illinois America 250 Commission was established to o...

We will see a very brief warm up today, with some light snow this evening and then much colder temperatures on the way. For today we do have a chance of flurries last this afternoon, but we'll otherwise see mostly cloudy skies for today with a high of 35. Then, we might start off with rain and then see it change to sn...

The Festival of Lights in Vandalia has been open for a few weeks now, but will get their official opening this Saturday. The Festival of Lights this year features 136 Christmas displays and 114 In Memory Of Angels. This Saturday, Santa and Mrs. Claus will be on hand, along with live Reindeer, Cookies and cocoa with th...

As hunters get ready for the 2nd weekend of firearm deer hunting season, a look back to the first weekend shows hunters harvested better than 51,000 deer. The total was 51,409. That number is down from 54,661 taken the first weekend last year and 53,348 taken in the first weekend in 2023. In Fayette County, hunters to...

Under new federal laws, qualified tips and overtime pay are exempt from federal income tax, but Illinois will still tax them. Workers must add those exempt tips back onto their state returns, a change a policy analyst warns could cause confusion. Manish Bhatt, Senior Policy Analyst with the Tax Foundation, said taxpay...