Category Archives: WCMY News

Ottawa Fire Chief Brian Bressner says one of the biggest challenges the department is facing is keeping staff. He says firefighters will start in Ottawa but then move to the Chicago suburbs for more o...

Larry Smith of Somonauk gets another two-year term as the LaSalle County Republican Party chairman. This week's leadership election put Larry Langston of Serena in the vice chair's spot, Tom Krieger o...

LaSalle County Board members plan to name a new state's attorney Tuesday. A special meeting has been called for noon that afternoon. Todd Martin is leaving the state's attorney's job to become a judge...

LaSalle County remains at the medium community level for COVID-19 spread, but the number of current cases has gone up for the fourth week in a row. County health department figures out Friday show 1,5...

LaSalle Deputy City Clerk Brent Bader says as of Friday morning, the electric vehicle charging station on Marquette St downtown is working again. The city has been working on fixing issues with it sin...

A little less than $16,000 from a fifteen million dollar state grant is going toward the Starved Rock Country Community Foundation. The money will help support the Starved Rock Country Festival of the...

Illinois Valley Community College is extending the fall semester tuition deadline. Students won't have to have their tuition in until Wednesday, August 10th. The original date was August 3rd. Vice Pre...

One issue the LaSalle County Board will be discussing at the August board meeting is whether hunting should still be allowed at Catlin Park. Board Member Jerry Myers of Streator says he's against it b...

About a dozen LaSalle County schools will have school resource officer services from the sheriff's department. Deputy Felicia Rasmussen has been assigned to it full time after a decade of working with...

LaSalle County unemployment dropped from May to June. It was 5.5% in May and 4.7% in June. The Illinois Department of Employment Security says the rates also dropped in Bureau and Putnam counties. Bur...