Colleen E. Mehrtens, 79, of East Carondelet, died Jan. 30, 2026, at Accolade Healthcare of Waterloo. She was born Dec. 21, ...

Earl J. “Butch” Menner, 89, of Columbia, died Jan. 29, 2026, at de Greeff Hospice House, Concord, Mo. He was born Feb. 4, ...

Hubert S. “Scott” Raitt Jr., 81, of Waterloo, died Jan. 30, 2026, in Waterloo. Born on March 5, 1944, in East St. Louis, ...

Phyllis Ann Karn (nee Swartz), 91, of Dupo, died Jan. 29, 2026, at Sherbrooke Village in St. Louis. She was born Aug. 15, 1934 in East St. Louis. Phyllis ...

The Waterloo Fire Department responded to St. Paul United Church of Christ, 200 N. Main Street, shortly before 9:15 a.m. Sunday for a broken elevator with people stuck inside.

Emergency personnel responded about 7:10 p.m. Saturday to a two-vehicle crash on I-255 southbound near milepost 16 north of Dupo in St. Clair County. One vehicle came to rest ...

Monroe County wasn’t spared by a major winter storm over the weekend that blanketed much of the country in snow, though in the aftermath it appears locals have come ...

Earlier this month, our country used military force to extract Venezuelan President Nicolaus Maduro and his wife from their ...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins on Jan. 7 ...

As technological advances continue to grow by leaps and bounds, law enforcement agencies have been forced to find ways to ...

The Republic-Times Athlete of the Week is Waterloo High School basketball player Mallory Thompson. The senior leads the ...

A local nonprofit lauded for its conservation efforts in the area recently observed its 20th anniversary, looking back at two ...