We will get one more dry and mild day today before rains start to move into the area. And, the potential for heavy rains exists on Thursday night and into Friday. Today we are looking at mostly sunny skies with a high of 81. Then, a chance of showers and thunderstorms for tonight with a low of 64. Meanwhile, the thre...

As they set up some of their long range planning, Vandalia Mayor Doug Knebel says they do need to look at increased staffing in some areas for the city and there are some areas where they may not need as much personnel going forward. During their June 15th Vandalia City Council meeting, a discussion was taking place an...

The cost to taxpayers when natural disasters hit is sometimes unclear in Illinois, but a meteorologist with the National Weather Service says a record number of tornadoes across the state may not be as impactful as some might assume. Brad Cole, director of the Illinois Municipal League, told The Center Square one cost ...

After legislation to heavily restrict the development of new data centers across Illinois failed to progress in the legislature, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signaled he is more than open to projects - but only if corporations pay for the impacts the developments bring. Pritzker said Monday he isn't against data center developme...

(Chicago, IL) -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is revealing charges have been filed against 17 individuals accused of stealing state funds by defrauding the Medicaid program. Raoul's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit is prosecuting the cases. The charges are part of a nationwide law enforcement effort that resulted i...

We will be sunny and mild again today. We are looking at sunny skies for today with a high of 78. Then, partly cloudy skies for tonight with a low of 59. Meanwhile, we have small chances of showers and storms on both Wednesday and Wednesday night with increasing chances of showers and storms beginning on Thursday and ...

NWS storm survey teams have concluded two tornadoes touched down near Vernon on June 21. The first was at 3:48PM, and the second at 5:24PM. Both were rated EF-0, with the tracks only 1.5 miles apart from each other. This corrects an earlier post which indicated only one tornado occurred.

The National Weather Service in St. Louis says an EF-1 tornado tracked eastward across rural Marion County east of Kinmundy causing tree damage and significantly damaging a farm outbuilding. Video of the tornado shows that it was multi-vortex.

After tabling the matter at their meeting last week, the Vandalia City Council met in special session on Monday evening and approved the street closure for a Pride Event in August on Gallatin Street. A good sized crowd was on hand at Vandalia City Hall for the meeting. This N That Owners Karen and John Becker spoke fi...

Voters say taxes and economic concerns top the list of issues facing Illinois. The Illinois Policy Institute's newest Lincoln Poll found that more than half of Illinois voters selected high taxes as a top one-or-two issue facing the state. Next-highest was the economy, selected by 41% of respondents. IPI policy analyst...

(Chicago, IL) -- Governor Pritzker is firing back at President Trump over his comments about weekend gun violence in Chicago. Pritzker was asked yesterday about a social media post in which Trump asked why the governor wasn't calling him for help after a Juneteenth holiday weekend that included a mass shooting. Prit...

We will have a calm day after the storms today. We will see mostly cloudy skies for today with a high of 74. Then, we'll see gradually clearing skies for tonight with a low of 58.

Multiple rounds of severe storms and heavy rains struck Fayette County for several hours on Sunday afternoon and evening. The storms started rolling in during the 1 pm hour on Sunday afternoon and continued with some breaks here and there for the next several hours. They led to multiple Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado...

(Jefferson Co., IL) -- Two people are dead after severe weather hit Jefferson County in downstate Illinois. Storms rolled through the region yesterday. Authorities say two people died after two homes were destroyed near Dix and in Mount Vernon. Five other people were sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injur...

(Springfield, IL) -- Illinois is already setting records for most tornadoes in a year. Weather officials say the state has experienced at least 147 tornadoes so far in 2026. That breaks the previous record of 142 set in 2024. Illinois also leads the country in tornadoes according to preliminary data from the National O...