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Ottawa River Rescue teaches CPR classes every month. Fire Chief Brian Bressner says the Ottawa Fire Department may start classes too. One device does the heart compression work that's exhausting for a...
WCMY News Mar 06, 2023 Marseilles Fire Protection District photo of a LUCAS CPR device on a training mannequin
Charges are being considered against a 37-year old man arrested in Peru Saturday morning for walking around with a BB gun. Two people reported seeing a man with what looked like a shotgun in the area ...
WCMY News Mar 06, 2023
Local rescue services and the LaSalle County Coroner's Office were sent to Naplate to recover a body from a ravine yesterday afternoon. The body was in the U.S. Silica ravine near the Naplate baseball...
WCMY News Mar 06, 2023
The Ottawa Community Food Basket is seeing more people needing help even before emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP benefits ended on March 1st. During the pandemic, people usi...
WCMY News Mar 06, 2023
The North Central Illinois Council of Governments is looking to find the best area to place rail stops. It's for the proposed Peoria to Chicago passenger rail service that would come through LaSalle, ...
WCMY News Mar 05, 2023 A slide showing the proposed Peoria-Chicago passenger rail route through LaSalle County
Peru City Engineer Eric Carls wants to plan for repairs on two buildings in the city. It would be the Illinois Valley Regional Dispatch Center and the Peru Fire Station. Both buildings could get some ...
WCMY News Mar 05, 2023
Ottawa High School placed third overall in today's Illinois High School Association music contest. The solo and ensemble contests were held in various locations across Illinois today. Ottawa is in cla...
WCMY News Mar 04, 2023 photosteve101 / CC
Four $500 scholarships are available through the LaSalle County Bar Association. High school seniors graduating this year are eligible to apply. Students can get them on the Bar Association's website ...
WCMY News Mar 04, 2023
A company's $80 million project northwest of Peru is one reason the state ranks second across the country for corporate investment, according to the governor's office. GAF Commercial Roofing is buildi...
WCMY News Mar 04, 2023
People who live near Carus Chemical and customers waiting on orders from the LaSalle production site may be interested in a new web page. Carus LLC has put a "frequently asked questions" list on its w...
WCMY News Mar 03, 2023