Illinois Department of Transportation engineers use explosives to drop a section of steel girders Wednesday from the old eastbound McClugage Bridge on the East Peoria side of the Illinois River.

Election results become official in Peoria two weeks after the April 1 election to allow for officials to count all mail-in ballots.

Illinois native Lexi Rodriguez won the 95th annual AAU Sullivan Award, given since 1930 to the nation's most outstanding athlete at the collegiate or Olympic level.

The younger Duncheon, who has been recruited as a two-way player, says ISU is a great school and the coaches were engaged early in the process. In fact, East Peoria coach Matt Plummer says he’s never ...

Qattum and his father, Ahmed, worked exhaustively — almost quite literally as they worked long hours while fasting during Ramadan — to achieve a vision that the Richwoods High School graduate had for ...

An exhibit opening in September at the Peoria Riverfront Museum will tell the story of the ship's discovery after its tragic sinking in 1912.

The No. 1 Peoria Rivermen will take on the No. 7 Evansville Thunderbolts in the SPHL best-of-3 semifinals. What to know about the series.

The NCAA transfer portal is open again for college football teams around the nation. The portal's spring window is open from April 16-25, following its winter window — which ran from Dec. 9-28, ...

East Peoria's splash pad project is set to begin this summer after the council unanimously approved a bid to install it in Levee Park.

Four people were hospitalized after a Tuesday afternoon crash in Peoria involving two vehicles and a school bus.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said there are "no concerns" for residents or businesses following a break-in at a landfill.

A Peoria-area machine company has announced a partnership with the world’s largest manufacturer of volumetric concrete mixers, with an eye toward customer service and efficiency. The partnership ...