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The filings begin a process to raise electric and gas prices in order to meet state law requirements for a multi-year plan and maintain the energy grid for a transition to clean energy.

Bond is set at $100,000 for a Creve Coeur man charged with making three false bomb threats against the Hotel Pere Marquette in downtown Peoria.

Labor shortages, potential clean energy changes, rising fuel costs, supply chain delays. These are some of the major challenges the truck driving industry has faced in recent years.

A man living illegally in the United States was sentenced last month to 27 years in prison for trafficking meth in Central Illinois.

Formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Grey Governors are a rock trio from Peoria that feature a heavy, progressive metal-inspired sound.

With the new program on the horizon, community leaders and organizers are sharing their hopes and concerns.

In her latest monthly conversation with WCBU, Peoria Mayor Rita Al discusses the planned Medina Plains business park, the proposed TIF District, and the related agreement with the Dunlap School District.

A Bloomington woman is dead after a shooting Wednesday afternoon on Peoria's South Side.

Candidate for an at-large seat on the Peoria City Council Anu Uddavolu says she got involved in the community as soon as she moved here, around ten years ago.

Every day when Logan Pappenfort is at work, he tries not to dwell on what’s under his feet. Beneath the south wing of the museum where he’s interim director are the remains of at least 234 of his ancestors.

The latest bomb threat at the hotel happened early Saturday morning, after an earlier incident was reported on Jan. 19.

Illinois was a free state in the decades before the American Civil War, but that doesn't mean it was always friendly to anti-slavery sentiment.