Category Archives: WCMY News

Ambulance services were told to stop taking patients to St. Margaret's Health Peru yesterday ahead of the hospital's closure tomorrow. The Utica Community Fire Protection District says its ambulance p...

Shepherd Middle School Principal Candice Tennell is leaving. The Ottawa Elementary School Board approved a separation agreement Thursday morning at a special board meeting. Supt. Michelle Lee says the...

LaSalle County Clerk Jennifer Ebner has begun taking election training. She's preparing to put on election judge training in a few weeks. She's asking people who want to be election judges to contact ...

State figures show that one in about 21 people in LaSalle, Bureau, and Putnam counties who wanted jobs last month didn't have them. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the unemployment...

An arbitrator says under a labor contract agreement, the city of Ottawa has the right to contract for work that it has contracted for before. Mayor Dan Aussem says that's the ruling that came at the e...

With talk of a progressive income tax coming up again in the state legislature, Illinois Senate Republicans want everyone to know they're against it. They filed a resolution on it yesterday. St. Sen. ...

There's a new education program being taught at Sheridan Correctional Center. IDOC Educational Program Manager Maria Miller says nineteen students from Lewis University in Romeoville could earn a bach...

A Serena man is dead after a fatal crash Wednesday morning. LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch says 27-year old Sean C. Stoewsand crashed his vehicle near the intersection of N. 3450th and 2175th Rd. e...

It's fair to say Coree Woltering ran for his induction into the Ottawa High School Hall of Fame. The 2008 graduate excelled in track and field and cross country when he was in high school. After high ...

LaSalle City Engineer Brian Brown says an important project for residents will be negotiated by the city. Instead of bonding out a project to repaint the city's water tower north of Utica, the city wi...