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The statewide Workforce Equity Initiative launched in 2019. Locally, it aims to teach students skills to secure jobs that pay $14.75 per hour or more.…

Former Peoria Congressman and U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood reportedly needed money for home repairs when he took $50,000 from…

Illinois Central College has fallen short in its bid to secure a Promise Neighborhoods grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Organizations are working to be more accessible to individuals and cutting through the noise of climate news.

Erik Reader has a thing about downtowns. It doesn’t matter if they’re small or mid-sized or if they’re on a river or surrounded by cornfields, Reader wants to see them get ahead.

You don't usually find Democrats picking up the gauntlet to weaken provisions of a law originally intended to prevent the concentration of capital into hereditary wealthy elites. But State Sen. Dave Koehler of Peoria said there's a sound economic development reason to do so.

The Peoria Public Schools Board of Education adopted the budget proposal for the 2023-24 school year during Monday night's meeting.

Quest Charter Academy was closed earlier this year after falling short of the requirements outlined in state charter laws.

Solar panels at Woodruff Career and Technical Center are now active and producing energy.

The Peoria Housing Authority has promised to repair the units where Direna Gardner's family of seven is expected to live during the Taft redevelopment.