Some snow is moving through the area this morning. The forecast says snow is likely main before 10 am with total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible this morning. On the Fayette County Emergency Management Agency's Facebook page it states---- I spoke with the National Weather Service out of St. ...

It will be cold and windy again today, but a warm up is on the way. We will see gradually clearing skies today with a high of 37. Winds out of the northwest will gust better than 25 miles per hour today. Then, we will see mostly clear skies and cold tonight with a low of 23. Meanwhile, a warm up is coming. We'll see...

It was the First Anniversary of the downtown Vandalia Veteran's Memorial Park, and it was well represented with a ceremony and then a Veteran's Day parade through downtown Vandalia on Saturday. During the program, Post 95 Commander Bruce Braswell spoke about the history and meaning of Veteran's Day. Veteran's Day is of...

The Vandalia First United Methodist Men will hold their annual Drive Thru Fish Fry this Thursday. The proceeds that are raised from the Fish Fry goes to the coats and shoes program for kids. Jeff Endres talks about the history of the program, with the need continuing to increase each year. The Fish Fry will be from 4...

The latest education statistics show stagnant proficiency for public school students in Illinois, despite dramatic increases in taxpayer funding. Kelsey Bakken, director of policy for Advance Illinois, said the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress data shows stagnant academic proficiency for Illinois publ...

(Undated) -- Federal health officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of infant botulism linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula. The outbreak includes 13 confirmed hospitalizations across ten states, including two cases in Illinois. The recall covers two lots marked "use by December 1st 2026.&qu...

(Washington, DC) -- Illinois' two US Senators are split on the proposal to reopen the government. The Senate voted 60 to 40 to pass a measure that includes a stopgap to fund the rest of government through January 30th. In a post on X, Senator Dick Durbin said the bill isn't perfect, but it takes important steps to redu...

We see a pretty big turn in the weather today. After a fairly nice fall day on Saturday, we are looking at cold and win today and maybe some snow flurries. We have a chance of flurries today. We will see falling temperatures during the day today. Winds from the northwest will gust better than 30 miles per hour today....

We get one more mild day today before a pretty big shift in temperatures. We will see mostly cloudy skies for most of today with a high of 63. We do have a chance of rain late in the afternoon/evening. Tonight we have a chance of rain with a low of 35. Winds from the northwest will gust better than 25 miles per hour...

We will have some dramatically different weather over the next handful of days. We could see a passing shower or storm this morning, but we'll otherwise see gradually clearing skies today with a high of 69. Winds from the southwest will gust 20 miles per hour today. Then, increasing clouds for tonight with a low of 3...

Vandalia Mayor Doug Knebel is encouraging everyone to head to downtown Vandalia this Saturday for the Veteran's Day Celebrations. Speaking on this week's podcast, "Talking about Vandalia," Mayor Knebel says he hopes everyone can come out to honor our Veterans and also to see the continued improvement at the d...

Multiple topics were discussed at the November Saint Elmo City Council Meeting. The first item that was discussed was awarding Tony Porter with the Employee Service Award. Porter has been employed with the city for 25 years The Council approved on a 5% tax increase on their yearly tax levy. While discussing the tax inc...

During Wednesday's Monthly Saint Elmo City Council Meeting, two individuals discussed with the council that they had yet to be paid for their work on the new truck stop that is in the process of being built. Tim Heuerman of Heuerman Brothers Trucking in Effingham and Clayton Gathe of Richland Land Improvement informed ...

A new report says Illinois has the highest per-capita unfunded state and local pension liabilities in the nation, 50% higher than the state with the second-highest pension debt. Reason Foundation reviewed over 300 public pension systems and found that Illinois leads the nation with over $15,000 per capita in unfunded s...

(Providence, RI) -- Illinois SNAP customers are set to begin receiving partial November benefits. The Illinois Department of Human Services says anyone who was supposed to receive benefits November 1st through the 6th will begin receiving partial benefits today. This comes after a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered ...