Mahomet News

Reduced weight limits still allow two Mahomet-Seymour School District buses to cross the reduced one lane bridge in Mahomet, but buses will be re-routed during upcoming repairs.

It may be just a matter of weeks before Tuscola finds out if it is chosen as the site for a new Cronus fertilizer plant.

Erika Harold announces her intention to seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Representative in the 13th Congressional District of Illinois at the front entrance to Urbana High School on Tuesday June 4, 2013.

Police are investigating multiple incidents of vandalism to Mahomet-Seymour School District Property.

A massive economic development bill, which includes state tax incentives to help build a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant west of Tuscola, passed the Senate Friday and was sent to Gov.

Members of the Mahomet-Seymour High School bands perform "Pomp and Circumstance" during commencement ceremonies at the school Sunday, May 26, 2013 in Mahomet, Ill.

Democrats pushed two education-related budget bills through the Senate on Wednesday, giving both higher education and elementary and secondary education close to the same levels of funding as the current year.

A suspected gas leak caused a school to be evacuated Thursday. Staff at Central Elementary School noticed an odor in the kitchen area when they arrived to the school.

A sex education measure that Republicans asserted was anti-local control and would promote birth control rather than abstinence-only cleared the Illinois Senate on a nearly party-line vote Wednesday.

Although many retired state employees are fearful about upcoming changes in their health care benefits, state officials and lawmakers attempted to quell those concerns Monday.