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Appreciating Peoria and BUILDING a better community are the goals of nonprofit BUILD Peoria. Through fundraising and completing one community voted-on project each year, BUILD seeks to impact future generations. There are four semifinalists for this year’s project and voting ends May 31.

Hundreds of families lost everything in last year’s November 17th tornadoes that ripped through Pekin, East Peoria and Washington. Some recovery needs…

On this week’s episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with Dr. David Vroman, director of the Peoria Municipal Band, about the band’s 89th season of free summer concerts.

What should have been a promising event for attendees of a job fair in Peoria was overshadowed by the grim reality facing Illinois.Goodwill Industries of…

After a one-year hiatus brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Special Olympics Illinois state flag football tournament returns this weekend to Greater Peoria.

With no discussion, the Peoria City Council recently approved spending more than $47,000 to buy the city's firefighters and police officers some…

Peoria police have arrested a suspect after a juvenile was shot Thursday afternoon on the city's South Side.

A 22-year-old man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for his role in an October 2021 murder in Peoria.

Central Illinois restaurants and bars only have a couple days to adapt to new bans on indoor service as COVID-19 cases surge across the region. Gov. JB…

Peoria’s NFW recently laid off employees as part of company restructuring — the third restructuring of this kind at the producer of plant-based plastic alternatives in as many years.