The City of Peoria will receive almost $500,000 more in state grant funding for a program to demolish abandoned, vacant and unsafe houses on the city’s South Side.

Pekin officials said Monday the city is continuing efforts to seek foreclosure on the property at 2801 Court St. that formerly was the site of a Motel 6 and McCritter's Bar & Grill.

Matthew Wigginton ran unopposed for the position of mayor in April’s municipal election, making the move after just one four-year term on the village board.

A controversial proposal to build a $12 million, 5,000-seat amphitheater on vacant city property off U.S. Route 24 and Nofsinger Road in Washington is apparently off the table.

The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission is finishing a lengthy, federally funded process to develop a broad plan for roadway safety with an ambitious goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and severe injuries by 2050.

Organizations from throughout the City of Peoria gathered at Freedom and Remembrance Memorial Park Thursday to announce a slate of Juneteenth celebrations.

The Village of Peoria Heights has a new appointee leading the fire department after the village board declined to renew the contract of Chief Dan Decker.

The East Peoria City Council has approved a new three-year contract with the union that represents its firefighters, as well as a plan for a quick service drive-through coffee shop near a major intersection.

A Peoria attorney is facing a felony charge after he attempted to cast two ballots in the April general election.

A new plan for the historic pump house building in Peoria Heights reimagines the space as a place to grow food businesses in the region.