Gov. JB Pritzker joined officials Tuesday at the Morris Municipal Airport to break ground and celebrate the construction of a $14.7 million crosswind runway.

Nancy Kuhajda, horticulture educator with the Illinois Extension serving Grundy, Kankakee and Will Counties, will teach the classes.

A crowd of over 100 Minooka residents filled the community room at Minooka Village Hall Wednesday night to ask questions of Equinix, a company with plans to build a data center on Holt Road near Ridge Road.

A Swedish study of 2.4 million children born between 1995 and 2019 shows no causal link between Tylenol and autism, Illinois doctors and families say, warning the administration’s language is harmful and dehumanizing

The new DuPage Park in Channahon was funded by an $185,000 grant through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

The much-anticipated fall festival features a carnival, fireworks, parade, craft show, water fights, live music and so much more.

The Grundy County Land Use Department will be hosting an electronic waste from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday Sept. 27.

Operation St. Nick's Christmas in July program has finished its 15th year, and is celebrating helping 17 veterans while providing $42,943 in aid.

Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers will host its annual Corn Fest 5K on Saturday, Sept. 27, as part of the Grundy County Corn Festival.

Julie Wilkinson, the business development director for the City of Morris, shares information on the city's parking and trails study.

Minooka Community High School and Plainfield Central High School will play each other in girls' volleyball for the Hits for Hugs fundraiser starting with the junior varsity game at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9.

The Morris City Council voted to revoke the business license of Morris Mart, a convenience store at 309 Liberty St., after it was found to be selling electronic cigarettes.

Data center developer Equinix is hosting an open house at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Minooka Village Hall, 121 E. McEvilly Road, to provide information and answer questions about a 300-acre data center it's proposing near Holt and Ridge Roads.

The new voter registration cards replaces all previously issued cards and will include the voter’s name, address, township, precinct, polling place and units of government for which the voter is entitled to vote.

The Channahon-Minooka Rotary has named Minooka Community High School senior Addison Davis its Student of the Month for September.

Artists returning this year is Ellen Grenier Bevill of Morris, Jan Podbielski of Peotone, and Jay Anderson and Carole St. Clair of Joliet.

Coal City’s annual Fall Fest brought thousands to Broadway Street on Saturday for a cruise night, games, rock climbing, live music, and the annual Megan’s Mission 5K.

Extend the garden season by learning how to harvest flower seeds and gaining tips on where to start to reclaim runaway landscapes with the Four Seasons Gardening webinar series

The Morris Community High School Board approved a budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which projects $24.4 million in revenue and $27.6 million in expenses.

The City of Morris held a public meeting Wednesday night outlining what their application for a $600,000 Open Space Land Acquisition Development grant will look like.

Everett Swanson won the online voting for Grundy County Athlete of the Week

The Morris Color Guard held a ceremony Thursday morning at the Sept. 11 Memorial in the parking lot at Runnings, 2655 Sycamore Drive, where Commander Robert Dettman presented Sheriff Ken Briley and Morris Fire and Police Chiefs Tracey and Alicia Steffes with a commemorative flag.

The Grundy County Board approved a $57,068 price tag to rehabilitate a 2009 Peterbilt snowplow during its meeting Tuesday night in an effort to beat the rising prices of new snowplows.

The Grundy County Board issued its rejection to the Brisbin Solar project being pitched for an area near the Brisbin Road interchange along I-80 on Tuesday, following recommendations from both the zoning board of appeals and land use committees.

Morris Community High School has been recognized by US News and World Report as the 6,481st best school out of 17,901 in the US and number 222 out of 715 in Illinois.

Morris Public Works has been working to repair a water main break since around 2 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Illinois Route 47 and Jefferson Street.

Food pantries across northern Illinois anticipate an increase in demand as a result of almost $200 billion in cuts in the next 10 years to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The cuts are part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act.”

The Coal City Unit 1 School Board met Wednesday, approving a 2025-26 fiscal year operating budget that has $40 million in revenues, $17.3 million of which comes from an agreement with Constellation Energy.

Learn basic drumming techniques and how to create authentic rhythms at the Four Rivers Environmental Education Center in Channhon on Thursday.

The annual festival now doubles as an Oktoberfest and has grown since its origin in 2016.

Coal City Middle School is hosting a McTeacher’s Night fundraiser from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17 at McDonald’s on 2 S. Broadway St.

As farmers travel between fields, Illinois State Police reminds motorists and farmers alike to share the road to help reduce crashes involving tractors and other farm equipment.

Morris senior volleyball player Hannah Linn won the online voting for Morris Herald-News Athlete of the Week

The City of Morris is seeking community input for a trails and parking study, and it has launched a website with a survey seeking community input.

The Morris Police and Fire Departments responded at 12:30 p.m. Thursday to the Loves Truck Stop on Brisbin Road in Morris for a semi-trailer fire south of the diesel pumps.

Reading assessment scores across several benchmarks dipped throughout the past school year within Minooka Community High School, according to a recent analysis.

Bishop McNamara hosted over a dozen area cross country teams for the Irish Conditioner on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at Small Memorial Park in Kankakee.

When it comes to safety, practice drills, protocols and police collaboration are being reviewed in Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201 as the 2025-26 school year gets underway.

The Grundy County Land Use Committee voted to deny a petition for a solar farm on a landlocked parcel of land near the Brisbin Road interchange along Interstate 80 on Wednesday as it seeks other uses for the land.

Minooka Community High School is hosting two induction events for the Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Proctor & Gamble's Greater Chicago Fulfillment Center in Morris partnered with the United Way of Grundy County to hold a school supply drive, giving their employees a chance to make a difference for local school children.

Catholic church leaders in northern Illinois have asked schools in their dioceses to review security policies as they pray for those affected by a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

Both True North locations at 539 Bedford Rd. and 1338 Clay Street in Morris will be home to their usual vendors Sunday, but they’ll also be home to a celebration of the end of summer.

The “memorandum of understanding” creates access and opportunity for high school students across the Diocese of Joliet to enroll at USF in Joliet, according to a release announcing the agreement.

Robert Schiffbauer, the superintendent of Minooka Community High School, shares information on the school district as students return to the building

Households must be at or below 60% of the state median income to receive a benefit from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. LIHEAP provides one-time benefits to help with energy bills and for reconnection of energy service.

NASCAR announced Wednesday it will return to Chicagoland Speedway over Fourth of July weekend.

The Grundy County Zoning Board of Appeals recommended that the Land Use Committee reject amending the zoning on a property north of Interstate 80 on Brisbin Road from agricultural to zoning.

Minooka Community High School was recognized on three lists released by US News and World Report’s 2025-26 Best High Schools rankings.

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Tuesday that it’s joining 200 law enforcement agencies across Illinois in a campaign against impaired, distracted and unsafe driving over Labor Day weekend.