Category Archives: Local News
Gas prices sharply increase in Peoria area
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices continue to climb in central Illinois. GasBuddy reports the average price of a gallon of unleaded on Monday is $3.21/g, up 7.5 cents in the past week. The average is more tha...
Nov 10, 2025 Mike Mozart / CC
Elite Re-Entry Program participants want to help keep at-risk kids out of trouble
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - Students got to hear stories from Peoria County jail inmates on Friday, as part of a program organizers hope will keep kids out of trouble. Boys ages 12-16 who struggle with b...
Nov 08, 2025 Elite's Re-Entry Program participants spoke to at-risk students Friday at the Peoria County Jail. (25 News)
Peoria County: Lane closures begin Monday on Glasford Road
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Soil boring work on Glasford Road, from US Route 24 to Main Street, will begin on Monday, November 10. Peoria County officials say the work is expected to take two weeks, requiri...
Nov 08, 2025 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Ed Hammond, File
Carle Health offering free lung cancer screenings on Saturday
PEORIA, Ill. - Carle Health Proctor and Carle Health Pekin hospitals will be holding no-cost lung cancer screenings on Saturday (November 8). Thanks to support from Carle Health Center for Philanthrop...
Nov 08, 2025 (Carle Health)
UPDATE: Man ordered to remain in jail after allegedly breaking into apartment and pistol-whipping girlfriend at Peoria apartment
UPDATED 3:55 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man was ordered detained by a judge after he allegedly forced his way into his girlfriend's apartment and pistol-whipped her. The Peoria County State's Attorn...
Nov 07, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Drought continues throughout central Illinois, little relief forecasted
PEORIA, Ill. - Drought conditions continue to persist across central Illinois. The latest U-S Drought Monitor report released on Thursday shows all of Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Fulton, Marshall, and...
Nov 07, 2025 (NOAA/National Weather Service)
Washington to install new lights in downtown area
WASHINGTON, Ill. - Lighting upgrades will soon be coming to Washington's downtown square and surrounding area. The city council this week approved spending more than 23-thousand dollars to install LED...
Nov 07, 2025 (City of Washington--Facebook page)
Big lottery jackpots up for grabs this weekend
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A lot of money is up for grabs in multi-state lotteries this weekend. It starts Friday night with an $843 million jackpot for Mega Millions. The prize has a cash option of more tha...
Nov 07, 2025 (Multi-State Lottery Association/Mega Millions)
Restrictions on federal immigration agents' use of riot control weapons extended indefinitely
Article Summary A federal judge has indefinitely extended restrictions on immigration agents' use of riot control weapons like tear gas and pepper balls without adequate justification or warning to th...
Nov 07, 2025 The Rev. David Black, senior pastor for the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, speaks during a news conference Thursday after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely restricting immigration agents’ use of riot control weapons like pepper balls and tear gas. Black, a plaintiff in the lawsuit that spurred the ruling, was hit with pepper balls “at least” seven times during a protest at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Broadview, Illinois, processing facility in September, including twice in the head. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
PPS: Wraparound Center provides food to families in need as shutdown continues
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - As the government shutdown continues into the 38th day, the Wraparound Center at Peoria Public Schools is reminding the community about services it offers to those in need. In...
Nov 07, 2025 Peoria Public Schools' Wraparound Center is located at Trewyn Middle School. (25 News)
