Effingham residents and officials discussed ideas for future land use, housing and more during the first steering committee ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is pulling back $477 million from Illinois that was to be used to prevent infectious ...

Applications are open for a piece of $10 billion in economic assistance available through a new USDA program. The Emergency ...

Effingham Police Chief Jason McFarland and City Administrator Steve Miller presented Fire Chief Brant Yochum and Police ...

The inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States took place on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. What grade ...

Washington Savings Bank has hired Landon Etheridge as Assistant Vice President and Loan Officer in Effingham. With 20 years ...

Officials are assessing damage this week after a tornado ripped through Neoga elementary and junior high schools just after ...

"I loved being able to have a good goal to go after, whereas, last year, I still had a goal, but this year, being able to ...

Enrollment at Illinois community colleges grew to more than 285,000 in the spring semester this year, an 8.9% increase over a year ago and the largest spring-to-spring enrollment ...

Kaden A. Phillips, 18, of rural St. Peter, has pleaded guilty in Fayette County to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the death of a 14-year-old last ...

John Petruszak opened his email Feb. 27 to find a message he called “shocking”: the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development had rescinded two grants it had ...

A Flora resident was injured in a three-vehicle accident March 15 at the intersection of Route 45 and 1425th Street in Union Township, according to the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office.