The state’s new “medical aid in dying” law has Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes questioning what happens to unused ...

Effingham Public Library Assistant Director Michelle Hartke was pleasantly surprised when she checked the library’s new ...

Love dominates with double-double, Raddatz scores 16 in Class 2A No. 6 Effingham's win over No. 7 Paris ...

A Vandalia woman is still reeling after winning a $3 million top prize on the Illinois Lottery’s $30 Royal Riches scratch-off ticket—thanks to a last-minute change in plans on Christmas ...

In the mid-2000s, Flamm Orchards in southern Illinois was forced to decide: Move to the H-2A temporary visa program or scale ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins on Jan.7 ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump.

On Jan. 14, 2026, the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office arrested Sullivan J. Chern, 22, of Sigel, for Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of a Child, according to a ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, is notifying the public of ongoing dredging operations at Lake ...

U.S. Rep. Mike Bost’s lawsuit challenging Illinois’ election laws can proceed because he is a candidate for office, the U.S.

Effingham Noon Rotary Club. The Bartels lead a ministry in the Central American nation of Costa Rica. That ministry was the ...

President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against ...