Kankakee Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group agents report an arrest. According to reports, KAMEG agents arrested 26-year-old Jeremy A Lehnig in the 500 block of West Station Street about 1:20 Friday afternoon. Authorities haven't released any other details of the arrest, except to say Lehnig was booked into the Jerome...

State Senator Chris Balkema, whose 53rd District includes a good portion of our listening area is weighing in on ongoing redistricting efforts in Springfield Senator Balkema said any redrawn districts should be understandable and fair for Illinois voters.

Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day. NationalDayCalendar.com says it's a day set aside to thank all teachers for their time and dedication to educate our children. Suggestions on how we can show gratitude to the teachers in our lives include refilling classroom supplies, writing a thank you letter, or volunteeri...

Comedian and WGN TV's Pat Tomasulo will perform at the Lincoln Cultural Center in Kankakee on May 16th for an event that will benefit the Kankakee Valley Theatre Association. Pat was a recent guest on the Kankakee Valley Community Happenings podcast with Mike Tomano and Rob West. Tickets to see Pat Tomasulo live in Kan...

Kankakee City Police report a Bourbonnais man allegedly battered a paramedic early this morning. According to reports, officers were called to a local hospital just after twelve this morning to speak to a Bourbonnais EMT who alleged 34-year-old Derek A. Wehrmann choked and pulled her hair inside the ambulance on the wa...

Kankakee City Police were called to a business in the 1000 Block of East Birch Street early Sunday morning for a weapons call. When police arrived around 3:30 Sunday morning, an employee told officers that a man had allegedly threatened to shoot her and was outside the building in a gray four-door car. Police attempted...

During last night's Bourbonnais Village Board meeting, Mayor Jeff Keast took some time to reflect on his first year as Mayor Keast said he'd like to see more development in Bourbonnais which, he said, is difficult citing the current business climate in Illinois.

The Bourbonnais Village Board last night passed an ordinance adopting various budgets for the village for the new fiscal year. Village Finance Director Tara Latz Latz added the Village will set spending limits by the end of July

The United Way of Kankakee and Iroquois Counties and the Community Foundation of the Kankakee River Valley celebrate the first year of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library partnership in Kankakee and Iroquois Counties. United Way Executive Director Mariah Vail says the program is for children under the age of five Vail...

Iroquois County Sheriff's Police report a series of arrests following an alleged burglary. According to reports, Iroquois County Sheriff's Deputies stopped a car driven by 49-year-old Justin R. Kuehne of Kankakee Tuesday following a call about a possible burglary. Reports say burglary tools and suspected meth were foun...

Kankakee Fire Department personnel were called to a small fire at Dow Chemical on Harvard Wednesday morning. Kankakee Fire Chief Bryan LaRoche says there was a small fire in some of the duct work in the building and the fire was out by the time firefighters got to the scene. Kankakee Fire checked for other issues and l...

Let's find out now what's going on around the county this weekend. With a look at a few of the events, here's Angelina Gear, Executive Director of Visit Kankakee County

The Kankakee County Museum will host Music in the Column Garden this Sunday afternoon. Executive Director Veronica Featherston.

The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that patching and resurfacing of Illinois Route 50 between Beecher and Wilmington roads in Peotone will require intermittent daytime lane closures beginning tomorrow May 1st, weather permitting. The $1.3 million project, which consists of resurfacing the 1.2-mile stre...

Kankakee County Supervisor of Assessments Erich Blair is reminding property owners with severe storm damage from March to contact their Township Assessor or the County Assessments Office to have their property reviewed. Blair said nothing can be done to adjust this year's property tax bills but next year's bills can be...

A May Day Strong rally will take place at the Kankakee County Courthouse this afternoon from three to five. According to a press release, the rally is one of over three-thousand nationwide supporting working people coming together to stand against the billionaire agenda and build collective power. Organizers are askin...

Illinois' unemployment rate is up slightly. The state Department of Employment Security says the state's jobless rate in March was five-point-one-percent, up one-percentage point from February. Non-farm payroll jobs increased by 84-hundred over the month.

Gas prices continue to spike. Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular no-lead gas is four-dollars 85 cents across the Land of Lincoln, up 19 cents overnight and 55 cents more expensive than it was just last week. In the Kankakee area that gallon of gas is running 4.77 on average, 56 cents more expensive...

Indiana's average gas price has rocketed up to four-dollars-80-cents a gallon, a dollar-ten higher than last week. The price of crude oil is a big part of that, but the gas refinery in Whiting in northwest Indiana is a major factor as well. The refinery has been shut down since Sunday night and is the main supplier o...

Attorneys for the man found guilty of the Delphi murders want to argue an appeal in front of a judge. Richard Allen's attorneys filed a new brief in the Indiana court of Appeals this week- arguing Allen's constitutional rights were violated and he should be given a new trial. The Indiana Court of Appeals must now dec...