Collin Schopp

You might notice an unusual-looking hoop hanging from a helicopter in the sky above central Illinois over the next month. It's all part of a decade-long project, called the Next Generation Water Observing System, to gain a better understanding about the water beneath our feet.

For the last 20 years, Clara Underwood-Forman has served as a pastor at Potter's House of Peoria. Now she wants to serve on the city council.

Around 80 people gathered outside of the Planned Parenthood Health Center on Knoxville Avenue Sunday afternoon, one week after police say an arsonist started a fire with a so-called incendiary device and caused more than $100,000 in damages, closing the center for at least a month.

The Peoria County Sheriff's department is investigating the death of a adult man from Decatur found in the early morning hours Sunday in the parking lot of a Casey's at 2114 W. Farmington Road with multiple gunshot wounds.

Effingham County Judge Joshua Morrison has issued a temporary restraining order on enforcement of House Bill 5471, also known as the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which bans the manufacture and sale of assault weapons.

The bill heading to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk guarantees 40 hours, or five days, of paid leave for every worker in Illinois.

The results of the Cure Violence Global Readiness Assessment appear to point toward the impending implementation of the program in Peoria.

The Peoria Planned Parenthood clinic will be closed for several months after Sunday's arson fire.

A Peoria native returned to the high school he graduated from Thursday morning to deliver the keynote speech at the Peoria Public Schools Foundation 365 Breakfast.

The first 2023 meeting of the Peoria Safety Network, a group of community officials and leaders aimed at reducing gun violence, provided year-end statistics and an important update on the status of the Cure Violence Initiative.