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Caterpillar Exceeds Wall Street's Expectations in 4th Quarter

Investors are taking Caterpillar's fourth-quarter earnings report as a positive sign for heavy industry.The company reported fourth-quarter sales and…

Region 2 Returns To Phase 4 Of Restore Illinois COVID Plan

Central Illinois is officially moving out of additional mitigations as the region's COVID-19 statistics continue to improve. On Monday, Region 2, which…

IDPH: 15 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Associated With EP!C

A Peoria-based organization caring for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has seen 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19.EP!C runs a housing…

Potent New Synthetic Opioid Circulating in Central Illinois

A potent, hard-t0-detect snythetic opioid is circulating in central Illinois.Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said brorphine has killed just under 20…

With investors making a major down payment, J.K. Williams Distilling eyes 2022 expansion

A major foreign investment will allow a Peoria-based whiskey distillery to ramp up production and branch out to other states.

Pride flags are seen at the state capitol Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Members of the Tennessee Equality Project and Nashville Pride gathered to protest against proposed legislation that would ban Pride, Black Lives Matter and other flags from being displayed in Tennessee schools. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Trio arrested on hate crime charges after Uplands Pride flags stolen, burned

Three men were arrested on hate crime charges Thursday for allegedly stealing Pride flags throughout the Uplands neighborhood on Peoria's West Bluff.

The Murray-Baker Bridge is lit up with brilliant blue lights to show support for survivors of human trafficking during the 2023 Human Trafficking Awareness Month.

Murray Baker Bridge lanes reduced for bridge washing, starting Monday night

The Murray Baker Bridge in Peoria will be down to just one lane for the next three nights as the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) washes the bridge.

An ambulance with its lights on. The text "WCBU Police and Fire" is laid on top of that photo.

Coroner IDs man killed in I-74 wreck near Morton

A 62-year-old Peoria man has been identified as the person who died in a two-vehicle accident early Thursday on Interstate 74 near the Morton exit.

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The former auditorium of the old Harrison School on W. Krause Ave seen recently by community development inspectors. Old tires clutter the stage.

Blighted former Harrison and McKinley schools on track for demolition later this year

Peoria's South Side could be rid of two major eyesores by the year's end.

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