Category Archives: WCMY News

While Democrats and Republicans bicker over who said what about Social Security and Medicare, both programs are running out of money. Medicare won't have enough to keep up with its required payments a...

Fifteen scholarships are available this year through the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation. Students living in LaSalle, Bureau, Putnam, Livingston, Marshall, Lee, and Grundy counties are eligi...

A Bartlett woman whose husband is accused of a bank robbery in Ottawa almost five years ago has a two-year prison sentence to serve. Jessica Sweeney Williams pleaded guilty last year to transferring a...

LaSalle, Oglesby, and Peru are getting state money to survey water service lines. The North Central Illinois Council of Governments says the funding is for figuring out where the lead service lines ar...

The Illinois Valley Community College Edible Car Contest is returning. It's Wednesday at noon in room CTC 124 and anyone is welcome to attend. Participants build their cars entirely out of food and ra...

Oglesby City Commissioner Jason Curran says a transformer specialist will look things over Monday to find out why electricity went out for most of the city Wednesday night. In the meantime, some peopl...

A state grant will pay for extending sewer service to the Liz Mar East Addition in Streator. The city applied for the $954,525 grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. The agency says ...

A man in his 70's and a woman in her 80's died from COVID-19 this week according to the LaSalle County Health Department. There have been 512 deaths from COVID-19 in the county so far. The health depa...

The Ottawa Port District and City Hall have chosen an engineer to design a new railyard. Mayor Dan Aussem says the port district must still buy the land. It'll be east of Champlain St. along a two-mil...

An Ottawa woman says she has suffered emotional distress, public embarrassment, and reputational harm because of Ottawa police. Suing the city under the name Jane Doe, she claims police have been circ...