Category Archives: Local News
PPD: Man arrested on multiple gun charges in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - While conducting patrol early Saturday morning, Peoria Police observed two men in a vehicle parked in the back of a parking lot on SW Water Street. While speaking with the men around 1:...
Jun 2, 2025 1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Car crashes into Peoria church, sending one person to the hospital
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria emergency crews responded to a rescue call Sunday morning, after a car crashed into a church, sending one person to the hospital. Fire Battalion Chief Steve Rada says firefighter...
Jun 2, 2025 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
GasBuddy: Peoria gas prices continues to drop as we move into the summer season
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in Peoria have dropped 4.1 cents a gallon in the last week, averaging $3.24 on Monday, according to GasBuddy. Peoria's prices are 9.6 cents lower than a month ago, and 47.6 c...
Jun 2, 2025 Orin Zebest / CC
Illinois lawmakers pass slimmed-down Medicaid package
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) Nearly every year, Illinois lawmakers pass a package of measures dealing with the state's Medicaid program, the joint federal and state health care program th...
Jun 1, 2025 The Illinois Capitol dome is pictured through the trees in Springfield. Lawmakers adjourned their spring session this week after passing 466 bills this year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Area lawmakers react to FY 2026 state budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Reaction to a new Illinois fiscal year budget has pretty much held along party lines. The $55.2 billion budget is supported by $55.3 billion of revenue, including just over $1 bill...
Jun 1, 2025 The Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)
Overnight Adams Street closures highlight this week's road projects
PEORIA, Ill. - No demolition blast is scheduled this week at the McClugage Bridge but that does not mean traffic will not be affected by the continuing work. The Illinois Department of Transportation ...
Jun 1, 2025 Midwest Communications
New taxes on sports bets, nicotine products as Democrats pass $55.2B budget
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Giving almost no time for public review, Illinois Democrats pushed through a $55.2 billion budget for next fiscal year late Saturday, bolstering coffers wit...
Jun 1, 2025 House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and members of his Democratic caucus applaud members of their staff early Sunday morning after the chamber approved the $55.2 billion budget bill. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
UPDATE: Illinois bill aims to lower cost of prescriptions, rein in pharmacy benefit managers
UPDATE - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A bill that seeks to control the rising cost of prescription drugs while also offering financial help for many small, independent pharmacies in Ill...
May 31, 2025 Illinois lawmakers are advancing legislation to impose more regulation and control over pharmacy benefit managers, firms that negotiate and manage prescription drug benefits on behalf of insurance plans. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)
Lawmakers unveil $55B spending plan with just 1 day left to pass it
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois Democrats introduced what a leading budgeteer described as a $55 billion budget Friday evening ahead of a Saturday deadline to pass the fiscal year...
May 31, 2025 State Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Chicago, talks to reporters in the Capitol rotunda. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Body found in rural Kewanee
KEWANEE, Ill. - Henry County and Kewanee police are investigating the discovery of a body in a rural area west of Kewanee. The Kewanee Police Department posted on Facebook Friday a concerned citizen d...
May 31, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
