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PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria firefighters and paramedics responded to a residential fire Friday at 9:13 p.m. The first arriving truck company found a fire in the enclosed porch area of the home, locate...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria City Council voted on Tuesday to decommission two fire engines in the city to help plug the hole in the budget created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision has not be...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria firefighters responded to a single-vehicle accident Friday night that proved to be fatal. At 11:28 p.m., Peoria firefighters and paramedics were called to 324 W. Glen on re...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria firefighters responded to a structure fire Friday morning at 825 W. Brons Ave. Upon arrival at 10:19 a.m., heavy smoke was showing. Forced entry to the building by fire cre...

PEORIA, Ill. — For a third day in a row, the Peoria City/County Health Department has reported deaths in the Tri-County area. A Peoria County man in his 90s, a resident of Apostolic Christian Sk...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A backlog of test reporting caused Friday’s statewide COVID-19 numbers to skew highly. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,368 new cases of coronavirus....

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August from 10.2% to a still-high 8.4%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government sai...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States keeps regaining more of the jobs that vanished when the viral pandemic flattened the economy early this spring. Yet so deep were the layoffs that began in March tha...

PEORIA, Ill. — Labor Day has been an official holiday in the United States since 1882, but many people may not know why there is a day in the calendar to honor laborers. According to the U.S. De...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The rolling seven-day statewide positivity rate for COVID-19 has ticked slightly downwards as the Illinois Department of Public Health reported on Thursday 1,360 new cases of...