Category Archives: Local News

The Vincennes City Council has approved a ten-year, 60 percent a year tax abatement for real property on the site of the future Bierhaus Flats subdivision. The approval was for a preliminary resolutio...

The Vincennes Board of Works has approved an addition to the City's health insurance policy for medical airlifting service. Vincennes Mayor Joe Yochum requested and received the service on a one-year ...

A new law in Illinois is designed to take guns out of the hands of accused domestic abusers. Governor Pritzker has signed Karina's Law requiring law enforcement to confiscate guns within 96 hours from...

The occupants of a home heavily damaged by fire Saturday evening were able to escape unharmed, after being alerted to the blaze by the family dog. That fire, at 921 Charles Street in Bicknell, was com...

The Monday after the Super Bowl could become a state holiday in Indiana. The Indiana House has a bill to declare the day after the NFL championship game "American Professional Football Day" and give p...

Nearly 500-thousand LG electric ovens have been recalled nationwide. The recall was issued by LG Electronics and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission after the ovens were linked to more than tw...

The Vincennes Board of Works has awarded this year's City paving contract to E and B Paving. E and B had the lower of two bids for the work, with a final bid of around one million, 20 thousand dollars...

Both the City of Vincennes and Knox County may be forced to adopt a "wheel tax" to get state Community Crossing Matching Grant paving funds. There is a measure that, if approved, would tie those benef...

The long-awaited Bierhaus Flats Subdivision is another step closer to reality. Vincennes City Council has approved a preliminary resolution for a tax abatement resolution as the next step toward const...

Vincennes-based TerraForce Ag is working with extra funding to work on its ideal for a robotic harvester. The company has received 375-thousand dollars in oversubscribed money to use artificial intell...