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With a nationwide teacher shortage going on, the battle continues to have enough substitute teachers available all around. And Vermilion County Regional Schools Superintendent Aaron Hird says a state ...

Pizza King in Hoopeston has an important change of ownership! Thank you to Carl and Marlene Shipman for 40 years of serving the public. You have touched the lives of many families in the community and...

This coming Saturday at 10 AM, a tradition that had to be skipped last year due to the pandemic returns for the Danville Police Department. Clothes for Kids will take place, in cooperation with Kohl's...

New numbers released by the Danville Area Visitors' Bureau show a dramatic drop in tourism spending. Bill Pickett has more... ''Covid 19 has impacted the travel industry in a way we have never seen be...

A Danville native says she feels blessed after winning a national award for developing a program which helps children of military families. Bill Pickett has more.... Amy Schweizer has been named the 2...

A program that helps Vermilion County children with special after school programs is looking for help to make sure those children have a nice Christmas. Here is information sent to us by Project Succe...

Danville's Festival of Trees is about a week away, and the team of volunteers would love to have you come aboard. Volunteer Jackie Vincent joined Linda Bolton on 1490 WDAN's Newsmakers program, and ta...

This Thursday is Veterans Day, and Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs would like some help reaching a goal. He wants to return 11 unclaimed Purple Hearts to those who earned them, or to their f...

It will be here before you know it, and that's Wreaths Across America on Saturday, December 18th. Location Coordinator for Danville National Cemetery Tammy Williams says anyone that wants to make dona...

On a beautiful fall morning with colors everywhere, it could not have been a better time for Friday's ribbon cutting, at the Kickapoo Rail Trail bridge over the Middle Fork Vermilion River, out by the...