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A group of Peoria-area community and business leaders hope to develop the city into a major biomanufacturing center in the next several years. Among them is Jake Becraft, a Metamora High School graduate who is co-founder and CEO of a Massachusetts-based biomanufacturing start-up.

Bicycling can be listed as one of the beneficiaries of the pandemic.“People have turned to biking again,” said Joe Russell, owner of Russell’s Cycling &…

The City of Peoria’s public works department is taking the next steps toward a long-planned extension of the Rock Island Greenway.

A Peoria man involved in a car crash in Bartonville last week has died.

As many Peoria residents cope with skyrocketing electricity bills, city leaders are seeking an explanation for the summer’s surging energy prices.

Market expert Patrick De Haan said Peoria’s average per-gallon price was up to $4.12 on Friday morning, on pace to break the 2011 record of around $4.25 in the near future.

Peoria City Manager Patrick Urich talks with WCBU about a range of topics, including the planned redevelopment of the PNC Bank Building and the end of the city's quest for a land-based casino.

Gov. JB Pritzker said Illinois has now conducted more than 1 million COVID-19 tests."This milestone is the result of the incredible work of so many people…

UPDATED 9 a.m. | The drive-through COVID-19 testing site in Bloomington will close Thursday and move to Peoria, which already has excess testing...

The Peoria area's two major hospital networks have exhausted the area's first COVID-19 vaccine shipment, beginning the inoculation process for 1,801…