Mount Vernon PD put out a missing person alert earlier in the day for 42-year-old Alana Taylor. She is believed to have left ...

Crews working for City Utilities of Springfield will begin replacing sections of natural gas and water infrastructure along ...

A Mount Vernon man has pleaded guilty in the fatal stabbing of a city resident in 2024. On Monday, Jan. 5, Ronald Hechavarria ...

MVPD believes 42-year-old Alana Taylor left voluntarily, but this behavior is “out of character” and “unusual” for her.

An early morning fire in Mount Vernon left three people displaced after flames ripped through one apartment, and smoke damage ...

The $40 million preservation project at the first president’s home included designing and installing a new HVAC system, ...

It has been years of planning and execution, but now the majority of the largest renovation ever at George Washington’s Mount ...

The department was dispatched after receiving reports of smoke coming from a railroad tunnel near Climax and South Wilderness ...

Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard offers six six-month extension to officer Derek Williams, battling kidney failure.

In a decisive victory last November, Shawyn Patterson-Howard became the first woman to be elected mayor of Mount Vernon and the first African American woman elected as mayor in the county’s history.

Mike Kirschner was Mt. Vernon football coach from 2018 to 2020. The two-time state championship coach back to lead Marauders' ...

MT. VERNON, Ill. (WSIL) -- According to Mt. Vernon Fire Chief Chris Yenne, one person is dead after a home caught fire on ...