The Mount Vernon City Council heard a presentation Wednesday on the 2025 goals of the North Star initiative. North Star is a public-private partnership formed in 2022 that aims to pool its resources ...

Centralia handed Effingham a 68-29 loss in the Salem High School Boys Basketball Invitational Wednesdasy evening. Centralia ran out to a 21-7 opening quarter lead and led 49-15 at halftime. The ...

Mount Vernon, Illinois handily defeated Salem, Illinois 53-30 Thursday at Salem, Illinois. "That gave us a big boost of energy," Jahadi White Jr. said. "That gave us what we needed." ...

MICDS (8-4), after back-to-back losses to close out its Christmas tournament, has notched three successive wins since the start of the 2025.

The Edwardsville Tigers girls wrestling team claimed victory at the 618 Scramble, finishing with 193.5 points and four ...

Two and a half years after Highland Real Estate approached city officials about Liberty Ridge, the city issued stormwater ...

Others receiving votes: 11, Casey-Westfield 17. 12, Dieterich 15. 13, Edinburg 7. 14, Winchester-West Central 7. 15, Bluford Webber 5. 16, South Beloit 4. 17, Princeville 3. 18, Mounds Meridian 3. 19, ...

The weekly release of the IHSA AP Basketball Polls on Wednesday featured three local teams retaining their spots as ranked ...

Mt. Vernon Police Detective Brylan Morlan has been named the department’s Officer of the Year. Morlan was honored at the ...

The Mount Vernon Township High School will hold a meeting at 6 p.m., Tuesday, January 21, at in the District Office Board ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office alerted the public, just before 2 p.m., of a crash which happened in the southbound ...

Sangamon County, its sheriff's office and its central dispatch system on Thursday announced an agreement with the U.S.