Category Archives: Local News
I-EMA: How prepared are you for severe weather?
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Do you have a storm kit? It's Severe Weather Preparedness Week, and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency wants to help keep your family safe in the event of severe storms. Get...
Mar 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
Peoria family, pets escape fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Fire damaged a home on W. Malone in Peoria Monday night, but a family of four and their pets were unharmed. Fire Battalion Chief Clint Kuhlman said a woman and three children were home...
Mar 01, 2022 Midwest Communications
City: Warmer weather is great for pothole patching, and more potholes being created
PEORIA, Ill. - If you think this weather is great for you, it's almost just the opposite for the roads -- and the crews trying to fix them. The shifts in temperatures coupled with rain and snow is lik...
Feb 28, 2022 DDohler / CC
Update: Officers released from hospital after lake rescue
UPDATE: (10 p.m. ) - A Pekin Police spokesperson tells 25 News that the three officers who rescued the child have been released from the hospital, while a family member says the boy is stable conditio...
Feb 28, 2022 1470 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Pritzker orders end to earlier Illinois school mask mandate
PEORIA, Ill. -- The tide is turning against continuing mask mandates and now Illinois' Governor is even ending a policy he'd been fighting in the courts to maintain. On Monday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker anno...
Feb 28, 2022 REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Expert: Attack on Ukraine could impact agriculture markets
NORMAL, Ill. - There's a lot of grain that Ukraine could be distributing around the world right now, but can't. "There's talk that Ukraine has about six million metric tons of wheat to export yet, and...
Feb 28, 2022
Some in Peoria metro choose to keep their masks, despite newly relaxed rules
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois' statewide indoor mask mandate was allowed to pass into history early Monday and there are already some businesses relaxing mask requirements as the state and the CDC now agre...
Feb 28, 2022 Cooper Banks/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
OSF HealthCare to buy assets of closed hospital
GALESBURG, Ill. - Peoria-based OSF HealthCare is, more or less, buying one of its long-time competitors in the area. OSF said Monday it's signed a letter of intent to purchase the real estate, medical...
Feb 28, 2022 Courtesy Rick Heath
Pritzker stands up for Ukraine at rally
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. J-B Pritzker and several other elected officials joined a Chicago rally in support of Ukraine on Sunday. Pritzker expressed his support for the people of Ukraine as the ...
Feb 28, 2022 Sergey Kozak
Peoria home catches fire again
PEORIA, Ill. -- A vacant home went up in flames for a second time. Peoria firefighters were called just before 11 p.m. Sunday to the area of S. Charles and W. Hayes, finding smoke coming from the one-...
Feb 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
