We have an ID now on the Rantoul man that was killed yesterday morning when the car he was driving collided with another on I-57 near Buckley. Iroquois County Coroner Bill Cheatum identified the man as 45-year-old Emiliano Ortega Galena of Rantoul Cheatum says Galena's car was traveling southbound in the northbound lan...

Time will be spent once again today assessing damage from yesterday's storms. Trees and power lines were downed as storms moved through the area late yesterday afternoon and early evening. Tornado warnings were issued about 4:30 yesterday afternoon when the National Weather Service saw a storm capable of producing a to...

Work is underway on Route 50 in Kankakee. Construction began yesterday on a four-mile stretch from Brookmont Boulevard to Route 45 and 52. Work includes intermittent milling and resurfacing, installation of pavement markings and raised reflective markers. One lane will be open in each direction during the two-point-...

Bradley Police report the arrest of a Saint Anne woman after she allegedly struck and killed a Bradley man with her car Friday night. According to reports, It was just after ten Friday night when officers were called to Kennedy Drive and Broadway Street for a crash that involved a car and a pedestrian. Despite life sav...

The Will County Coroner's office has identified the woman who died in a crash over the weekend in Smith Road in Manhattan. Manhattan firefighters were called to the roll-over crash on Smith Road east of Kankakee Street in Manhattan Saturday morning. Firefighters say they found a car that had gone off the roadway and ...

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin was in town Friday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new point-of-care laboratory at Hippocrates Medical Clinic in downtown Kankakee. The clinic is being funded by the nonprofit health care access organization Heart to Heart International. Officials say the new lab will signifi...

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin was in town Friday helping Hippocrates Medical Clinic in downtown Kankakee celebrate their being chosen as one of only six clinics in the nation to get funding by the nonprofit health care access organization Heart to Heart International. Our Mike Ruble was there and asked the Senator what he p...

The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory that will be in effect for us until nine o'clock tonight. The weather service says we should have a high temperature today right around 90, with the heat index running 110 or so. They say that kind of heat can cause heat illnesses. They remind you to drink plenty ...

With temperatures in the 90's and a heat index nearing 110 today the Kankakee County Sheriff's Department reminds you to keep an eye on those little ones and pets

Let's find out now what's going on overhead this week. With our Notable Night Sky News, here's Madeline Shepley, astronomy professor and director of the Strickler Planetarium at Olivet

The jackpots for the Mega Millions and Powerball lotteries continue to grow. Nearly one-and-half billion dollars will be up for grabs this week. Saturday's Powerball drawing failed to produce a big winner, so an estimated 633-million dollars is on the line Monday night. Meanwhile, Tuesday's Mega Millions jackpot jum...

Monee Firefighters were called out early Sunday morning for a semi trailer that was on fire on I-57 at Monee-Manhattan Road. Firefighters say they were called out just after 3:30 yesterday morning and when they got there they found fire in a rear set of tires had gotten into the trailer that was carrying packages from ...

Manhattan Firefighters were called to a roll-over crash Saturday in the 13-thousand block of Smith Road. When they got there, firefighters found a car that had gone off the roadway and was laying on it's roof with the driver trapped inside. Firefighters got the driver out of the car and took them to the hospital in cri...

JULY The Bourbonnais Public Library invites you to join its "BOOKbonnais" Community Reading Challenge, a free program running from the first of June until the last day of July. It will offer challenges for readers of all ages with a chance to win prizes. Kids will record their reading on a paper log which can...

Will County Emergency Management will host a Storm Ready Workshop this Saturday at the Crete Township Community Center. Dawn Boyle is the Community Outreach Program Manager for Will County EMA Boyle added the last half hour of the program will be all about community resources available in Will County. Boyle says the pr...

There's plenty to do around Kankakee County this weekend, with a look at a few of the events, here's Angelina Gear, Executive Director of Visit Kankakee County

Jackpots continue to grow in the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries, with a total of more than one and a quarter billion dollars up for grabs. Lottery officials say the jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions drawing sits at 743-million-dollars while Saturday night's Powerball jackpot is an estimated 600-million. Odd of...

A hearing was held in Kankakee County Circuit Court this morning in the murder trial of Xandria Harris. Harris is accused in the 2021 murder of Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic and wounding of her partner officer Tyler Bailey. Harris' defense attorney Cierra Norris told Judge Kathy Bradshaw Elliott she might n...

It's not your imagination, gas prices have jumped in the Kankakee area over the last couple of days. Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead gas is now four-dollars-24 cents across Kankakee County. That's a jump of 15 cents overnight and a 27 cent increase from the cost one week ago today. Gas pr...

Iroquois County Sheriff's Police report a drug bust. In a Facebook post, deputies say it was Tuesday evening when they stopped a car driven by Chen XinXin of Chicago. A search of his car allegedly turned up some 30 pounds of suspected cannabis. Reports say that lead to a search warrant being issued for a home in rural ...