In the 2023-24 school year, 43.3% of the students in Fairfield Public School District 112 passed the ELA portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
In the 2023-24 school year, 95.4% of Carrier Mills Stonefort Community Unit School District 2 students failed the math portion of the IAR test, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
After numerous complaints from farmers in the 59th Senate District, State Senator Dale Fowler (R-Harrisburg) is backing legislation aimed at addressing deer overpopulation.
There was one offender convicted of a crime involving drugs living in Saline County released on parole during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by the SE Illinois News.
In the 2023-24 school year, 44.8% of the students in Jasper Community Consolidated School District 17 passed the Math portion of the IAR, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Gallatin County has been issued a tentative property assessment equalization factor of 1.0000, as announced by David Harris, the director of the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR).