The annual Olde Effingham Day Festival is set for Saturday, April 19 at the Effingham Museum and Living History Site. It will ...

The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office Humane Enforcement is currently offering microchip scans for lost animals in several ...

Trafficking Enforcement Bureau conducted seven human trafficking demand suppression operations across Illinois, resulting in 31 arrests and 91 criminal charges, according to authorities. The ...

A federal grand jury has charged nine illegal aliens with immigration-related offenses in Effingham, Madison, Monroe and St. Clair counties over the last two months.

Nine persons have been charged in federal court with immigration-related offenses in Southern Illinois in the past two months ...

Residents who live in Effingham County have been waiting for months to know whether 425 acres of land will be rezoned for ...

A man who fled from Georgia State Patrol Monday evening in Bryan County is still on the run. A warrant has been secured for ...

(WAND) - F ormer State Representative (D) Chuck Hartke has died. He was 80 years old. He passed away peacefully on Sunday, ...

Hartke, a Democrat, represented several rural counties in southeastern Illinois in the state House from 1985 until 2003, when ...

Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) on April 11 issued a Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) for Savannah Industrial ...

Islands junior Dylan Stewart was in a groove on the mound Tuesday night in a region crossover game at Jenkins. He also got a ...