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Some local labor leaders say it's important for their members to stay active in their unions. They were interviewed by VermilionCountyFirst.com News out along the Labor Day Parade route. Lee Bennett i...

Monday's Labor Day Parades unofficially kicked-off the campaign season for the March 20th, 2018 election. And candidates who are planning to run for office are being reminded that election packets are...

Monday's Westville Labor Day Parade marked the 107th year that participants have marched down State Street (Illinois route one) in that community. And over the years people have come to realize the pa...

Just in time for the Labor Day weekend new playground equipment is now in place at Ward Park in Ridge Farm. That is just one of the places you can go to have fun this weekend. Both Westville and Hoope...

Some members of a Danville family escaped injury Thursday night when flames struck their home. Danville Firefighters responded to the call at 1122 Dakota Street shortly after 9 o'clock. When they arri...

The men and women who work the long white line along (along the edge of) interstate highways hope to get a message out to holiday travelers. It is the law in Illinois that you must pull over to the ot...

A Carnegie Library building recently acquired by Danville Area Community College from the Veterans Administration now has a new name. During a dedication ceremony today (Thursday) the building was off...

Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill overhauling Illinois’ school funding formula, calling it “historic.” In an elementary school Thursday in Chicago, Rauner said schools in Illinois have...

A special delivery - with love - is headed to the storm ravaged Houston area from some people in the Danville area. Joshua Edington, a Danville Police Officer, decided to drive some donations to the f...

Oakwood High School graduate Abby Foster says she had a great day Tuesday in Atlantic City getting ready for the Miss America competition. Foster is Miss Illinois and lives just west of Danville. Ther...