During Thursday morning's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Finance Committee, County Auditor Colton Ekhoff gave the committee an update on requests for reimbursement that have come into his office so far this year Ekhoff added the county has saved some 20-thousand dollars in the last nine months by combining requ...

You might now be able to tell it by the weather today, but drought concerns have started to make their way back into the area. The latest map jsut released Thursday from the US Drought Monitor places all of Kankakee, Will and Grundy Counties in the "abnormally dry" category. Additionally, the northeaster thir...

The 44th annual Kankakee and Iroquois River Clean-Up day is scheduled for this Saturday on the Kankakee River. Ken Munjoy is the President of the Northern Illinois Anglers Association which is sponsoring the event and he says there will be five sites along the Kankakee and Iroquois River where you can register come Sat...

During this week's meeting of the Kankakee County Board's Executive Committee, County Recorder of Deeds Lori Gadbois told the committee about a new program starting in her office the first of the year Gadbois said she's already had an instance where a notary called her office to say something had been registered that w...