Category Archives: Local News

Former Lancaster Police Chief Rodger Janssen passed away Monday. He was 74. Janssen was a 1966 graduate of Lancaster High School and served in the Lancaster Police Department for 31 years, with 25 yea...

City of Galena officials will seek proposals to install a multi-meter paid parking system in hopes of mitigating parking problems, while waiting until a later date to decide whether to allow outdoor d...

The latest congressional redistricting proposal released by the Democratic majority in the Illinois Legislature would split Jo Daviess County between two districts. The map is the second one put forwa...

The Platteville School Board is proposing an almost 8% drop in its total tax levy for this year. The proposed budget of just over $8-million dollars is a roughly $700-thousand dollar decrease from las...

The president of the Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO says the pandemic has changed the way workers think about their jobs. Charlie Wishman says it was no surprise members of the United Auto Workers w...

It's the time of year when you are more likely to encounter a deer out on the roadway. DNR's wildlife research biologist, Jim Coffey, says deer movement is generally triggered by the timing of the sun...

Roadwork along Highway 81 between Lancaster and Platteville will wrap up for the year on November 18th. However, the project won't be completed until next spring. In an update from the state DOT, roug...

This is the second full week of the strike by union workers against John Deere. U-A-W employees will soon start getting strike pay. The U-A-W says workers who do picket duty will get 55 dollars each d...

Iowa County Deputies responded to a disturbance at a residence on Roaster Road in Linden Sunday around 2pm. Following an investigation, deputies arrested 27 year old Antoinette Carpenter of Montfort w...

Officials in Iowa County received a report of a multiple vehicle accident on Highway 18-151 near County Road K in the Township of Brigham Sunday just after 4pm. The Iowa County Sheriff's Office, Ridge...