Category Archives: WCMY News

There's water in the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Ottawa, but it's not the beginning of filling it for recreational use. Arnie Bandstra, president of the Ottawa Canal Association, says there's still...

Ten write-in candidates have filed with the LaSalle County Clerk's Office. Six of them are asking voters to consider them for president. And of them, two are from Illinois: Kasey Wells of Lexington an...

Cong. Adam Kinzinger and candidate Dani Brzozowski will participate in a forum on the air at WCMY later this month. It will be at 9am on the morning of Saturday, September 26. Kinzinger is a Republica...

The LaSalle County Health Department says a man in his 80s is the 51st person from the county to die of the coronavirus. No new cases were added to the county Thursday. The total remains at 749. There...

The LaSalle County Health Department has found the first positive West Nile Virus sample in the county this year. It's in a batch of mosquitoes collected in Ottawa Thursday. The department tested them...

Parking lot repaving work will start Friday at the OSF Medical Group offices on E. Norris Dr. in Ottawa. All parking lots will be affected at some point during the two-month project. Patient drop-off ...

Confessed serial killer Dellmus Colvin detailed in a podcast on serial killers a murder he says he committed in LaSalle County. He says he interacted with a white woman with "dishwater blonde hair" an...

Dani Brzozowski says nuclear energy is clean energy and that should be reflected in national policy. The LaSalle Democrat running for Congress says some areas of national energy policy don't even cons...

The number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus in LaSalle County climbed by two Wednesday with those of a woman in her 60s and a woman in her 90s. That makes 50 fatal cases so far. The LaSalle Cou...

LaSalle Rd. north of Peru was closed Wednesday while police conducted an investigation that's reportedly into a serial killer's claim of leaving a body there. The investigation location is at a former...