"This is what I dreamed of," Stewart said. "Coming into my senior year, I had a lot of goals. This was one — to make it to ...

Effingham resident Judy Repking attended President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress on Tuesday. Repking is the ...

Attention across the nation is rightly focused on potential massive and drastic Medicaid cuts under consideration by Congress ...

Finding ways to increase student recruitment during a time of enrollment challenges is a top priority for the Lake Land ...

Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another ...

Emily Zumbahlen was selected as the District FFA Proficiency Winner in Equine Science, Entrepreneurship. Emily is a member of ...

The Stewardson Wilbur Braughton Legion and Auxiliary 611 announced winners in the Americanism Essay Contest, sponsored by the ...

Five people were exposed when a hawk tested positive for the bird flu in Effingham County last month, but they showed no ...

Windsor Junior-Senior High School announced February Students of the Month were Briar Rincker and Halle Wright.

My kids hurt my feelings all the time, but no more so when they accuse me of trying to poison them with rotten food. I don’t.

"It was a surreal moment," Beaumont said. "When [the official] raised my hand, it felt crazy. Something I wanted for so long, I actually got." ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that work has resumed on the Fayette Avenue reconstruction project in Effingham, particularly along Henrietta Street.