Category Archives: WCMY News

With a 70 to 44 vote, the Illinois House approved its operating rules yesterday. Republicans are criticizing them as mostly the same old rules. St. Rep. Tom Demmer of Dixon says shell bills are still ...

This year's Starved Rock Regional Center for Therapy and Child Development ambassador is five-year old Devyn Yanko. He goes to Lincoln School in Ottawa and likes talking about Godzilla, landmarks, veh...

The Ottawa Fire Department says an electrical problem led to a fire in the 700 block of Sherwood Ave. yesterday morning. The fire fighters went into the attic to tear into the space the smoke was comi...

The number of people losing their lives to COVID-19 every day in LaSalle County remains lower than it was just a couple months ago. But it has become a daily occurrence again. The LaSalle County Healt...

Some LaSalle County officials are worried about the ground shifting outside the county jail. In the last three years, the ground by the women's jail pod has been drying up, so the soil pack has been s...

There are Democrats and Republicans who want Pres. Biden to change his mind about firing U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois John Lausch. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth want Lausch to stay on t...

Against the pressure of Donald Trump supporters who say Adam Kinzinger isn't a real Republican, the Congressman assures everyone he is a conservative. He says his Country 1st initiative is to get the ...

LaSalle County's fatal coronavirus case count went up by three Monday. The county's health department says a man in his 70's, a woman in her 70's, and a woman in her 90's died. That makes 265 fatal ca...

Sen. Dick Durbin wants an impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump to air out what Trump did. The former president is accused of inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6t...

The archery method for hunting deer is growing in popularity across Illinois. Illinois Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Rachel Torbert says a record 67,543 deer were hunted that way statewi...