Peoria City/County Health Department

A collaboration between Neighborhood House and the Peoria Opportunities Foundation will rehabilitate up to seven South Side residences for new homebuyers, with assistance from the Peoria City/County Health Department.

The Peoria County Board of Health on Monday approved new vaccination policy costs and an updated fee schedule for birth and death certificates.

Several Peoria-area community leaders are set to speak Monday night on possible local impacts from the “Big Beautiful Bill” and other federal policies. The non-partisan discussion is the latest in a series of “teach-in” speaking engagements hosted by the League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria.

Two Peoria organizations are working together on an initiative to boost home ownership possibilities for low-income households on the city’s South Side, with financial assistance from the health department.

There’s a major leadership shake-up underway at the Peoria nonprofit that partnered with the City/County Health Department in an unsuccessful attempt to launch a Cure Violence program in the city's South Side.

After two years of messy groundwork, any and all efforts to launch Cure Violence Global's gun violence prevention program in Peoria are dead. How it ended up that way depends who you ask.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding intended for Peoria’s now defunct Cure Violence program might be redirected into a different ongoing program aimed at reducing crime.

WCBU has obtained a heavily redacted police report the Peoria County City/County Health Department filed with the Peoria Police Department alleging “theft, obtained by deception,” related to grant funding intended for the Cure Violence program.

The termination of the Cure Violence program has raised questions and prompted a criminal investigation into possible financial malfeasance. Mayor Rita Ali discusses the problems with the program and how the void it left behind can be filled.

There's a chill in the morning air and that means fall, and flu season, are right around the corner.