Category Archives: WCMY News

There have been 283 coronavirus fatalities in LaSalle County, according to the county health department's daily statistics given Monday. A woman in her 80's is the latest to have died of it. The depar...

LaSalle-Peru High School students will be on remote learning immediately. The building will be closed Tuesday. In person events, including sports, are cancelled through Saturday. An announcement from ...

A woman who calls herself Accountability Angel on YouTube livestreamed her arrest this afternoon at the courthouse on Etna Rd. in Ottawa. Angel M. Farmer, 29, has posted videos over the last few month...

Cong. Adam Kinzinger is collecting cards for veterans again for St. Patrick's Day. The cards will go to residents of the veterans home in LaSalle and patients at the Danville and Hines veterans hospit...

It's time for repairs again under the Fox River Main St. bridge in Ottawa. City Engineer Tom Duttlinger says when the river floods, forces from the moving water scour out the river bottom around the b...

Ottawa City Hall is borrowing $15 million in two bond issues. $5 million will be used for running a water main to a recently annexed area at Illinois 71 and Interstate 80. $10 million is for sewer sys...

Illinois American Water is taking grant applications until March 29th for environmental projects in its service areas. Locally, those areas include Ransom and Streator. Neither has ever received such ...

An Ottawa woman agrees to four years in an intense probation program. Twenty-one year old Claudia D. Smith pleaded guilty Friday to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance. Judge H. Chris Ryan sen...

LaSalle County Environmental Services and Land Use Department Director Brian Gift would like to shorten the department's name. He feels Land Use Department is enough. Gift told the County Board's Land...

Two people in Streator report finding and confronting burglars in their homes early Friday morning. Police arrested 28-year old Kjersten Minkler of Streator in the 300 block of W. Sumner St. after one...