Category Archives: Local News

The National Weather Service is expanding the emergency alerts it issues on mobile phones. Beginning next week, the agency will send a special signal for thunderstorms it deems as "destructive." That ...

Investigators from the State Board of Accounts will be in Evansville next week to look into allegations of wrongdoing within the Parks Department. The city will cover the cost of the investigation. Pa...

Masks will remain optional for now in E-V-S-C schools. Superintendent Dr. David Smith says they are following recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Buses are covere...

A historic building that has stood for almost 150 years will be torn down next year. The bricks in the walls and foundation are crumbling, and there are other problems inside. Dan Heckel is director o...

Eleven Hoosier food banks, including one in Evansville will get a slice of a State of Indiana funding pie. And it's a pretty tasty pie, at $1 million to support the organizations' efforts to provide s...

Teachers at the East Gibson School Corporation went before the school board last week to request a pay raise. The funds for teacher salaries and benefits are dictated by student attendance. In the las...

An Evansville man convicted of a 1992 murder is back in jail on several charges. E-P-D detectives say home surveillance footage shows 48-year-old James Decker appear to hit a man with a car at Florida...

The first day of school for EVSC students is a little more than two weeks away. But even as that first day looms, new COVID cases are once again on the increase. The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp...

This is a drill. If you see fire trucks around the 420 building in downtown Evansville, don't worry, it's a training exercise. The building is about to be torn down, so firefighters are getting practi...

The case against former Gibson Co. clerk James Morrow has been dismissed. The trial was held in Vanderburgh County with Pike County prosecutors. As reported earlier this month, there was a mistrial. P...