Category Archives: WCMY News

A motorcyclist died in a traffic crash in Morris yesterday afternoon. Twenty-seven year old David T. Stickel was from Bonefield. Grundy County Coroner John Callahan says the motorcycle hit a van that ...

A new position could be added to the Lasalle County Parks Department. The county's salary and labor committee approved creating a salary for an assistant parks director that would be working full time...

A 35-year old Streator woman faces a disorderly conduct charge, accused of making up a story about being kidnapped. Sarah M. Chandler reported the purported incident last Thursday night. Ottawa Detect...

West Nile Virus has been found for the first time this year in a mosquito batch captured in LaSalle County. A batch from Ottawa tested positive for the virus this morning. The LaSalle County Health De...

St. Rep. David Welter doesn't think Democrats will have fairness in mind when the General Assembly meets for a redistricting redo next week. The Morris Republican says they knew they were defeated tho...

While it doesn't look like anything's being done at the state level to keep the Byron and Dresden nuclear power plants open, some people feel something will happen. St. Rep. David Welter says it may c...

Interviews will be starting next week at Illinois Valley Community College to look for someone to fill the open position on the board of trustees. Former trustee David Mallery of Hennepin resigned bac...

Mediacom Communications Senior Director Phyllis Peters says parts of Boone, Bureau, Henry, LaSalle, Livingston, McHenry, and Mercer counties were affected by the internet outage when a crew setting ut...

Ottawa City Council members will talk about food trucks and noise at a workshop meeting Thursday afternoon, August 26 at 5pm. Since it's a workshop meeting, the discussion can be freeform. But the cou...

Ralph Coyle of rural Marseilles says he's taking a non-partisan approach to examining what's wrong with elections. He's starting an organization called Safeguard Our Vote to look into possible changes...