Peoria News

Summer is quickly approaching, and it's time to start making summer plans. One thing to add to your family's must-do list is participation in the 2013 Summer Reading Program at the Peoria Public Library .

IDOT says there will be intermittent lane closures on War Memorial Drive and Knoxville Road in Peoria this week.

Dust Control Technology , Peoria, Ill., has introduced four new sizes of its dust suppression rings.

Weatherizing a home to reduce energy usage and maximize savings is something homeowners think about in cold weather.

The Middle Ages are a fascinating time period for children, and even though the era spanned about 1,000 years of history, many kids can easily identify their favorite thing about this time period: knights and castles .

Were David Foster Wallace alive today, it's a good bet that he would have had both great interest and insight into this week's scandal at the IRS .

The year's worth of anticipation and build up finally came to an end Friday afternoon as local rockers X Factor 1 took the Jagermeister Stage and officially kicked off Rock on the Range 2013.

She's also a Peoria Promise scholarship recipient. Peoria Promise allows local students, like Fernandez, to attend Illinois Central College for free.

St. Vincent de Paul school in Peoria is ready to raise the curtain on its production of "Seussical Jr." Opening night is Friday, May 17th at 7pm.

An open house to honor Deacon John Murphy will be from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Harkrader Hall, St.

Brett Fitzgerald, Metamora Township High School senior, said art is too subjective to be able to judge an individual work."I don't really like contests," he said.

May 15, 2013 - Cormac Siegfried, son of EAA Director Emeritus Rand Siegfried, successfully completed his first solo flight in a powered aircraft on May 5 in his grandfather Robert "Old Bob" Siegfried's Boeing Stearman PT 17, the iconic World War II trainer.

The southern professional hockey league is approving the addition of the Bloomington Blaze and the Peoria Rivermen for the 2013-2014 season.

TNA Impact Pre-Sale Code For June 20th in Peoria, IL Posted by Larry Csonka on 05.15.2013 Tickets now on sale... - The pre-sale for the June 20th TNA Impact tapings in Peoria, IL started this morning at 10AM ET.

The annual East Peoria Carnival will take place May 22 through 26 in the parking lot at the Festival Building, 2200 E. Washington St.

The Rev. Robert R. Karjala, 83, of Galva, passed away at 9:59 a.m. Saturday, May 11, at OSF St.

A pioneer in regenerative medicine traveled from Sweden to the Children's Hospital of Illinois in Peoria last month to create a new trachea for a 2-year-old girl.

In the wake of Angelina Jolie's decision to get a double mastectomy, a Peoria woman remembers making the same decision because of the same genetic mutation.

Related Video x Video: Murder trial of David Gharrett Lori Ann Cook-Neisler Assistant States Attorney David Lee and lead defense attorney Ron Lewis make opening statements on the first day of the David Gharrett murder trial.

Average retail gas prices in Peoria have fallen very slightly in the past week, 0.3 cents per gallon, according to a survey released Monday by GasBuddy.com. Prices were 4.8 cents per gallon higher than a year ago and 21.4 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.