For the northern part, developer Jim Letchinger hopes the city will back his plan for a residential mix, while the southern ...

Plans for a golf course, apples abroad and the near fatal poisoning of an Inland Township family made the news in 1925.

More than 700 Illinois schools are within a quarter-mile of crop fields, yet state law doesn’t require pesticide applicators to ...

Kit Basom, right, a co-owner of the Craftsbury General Store, chats with a customer at the front counter in Craftsbury on Monday, Nov. 24. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Ned Houston wore many hats ...

Sterling Main Street announced that it received two awards at the 2025 Illinois Main Street Conference from Nov. 12 to 14 in Dixon. The organization was recognized for outstanding achievements in both ...

Nov. 13—A Whiteside County jury is on track to begin deliberating Friday to decide whether two Rock Falls fire officials' actions at a 2021 fire contributed to a Sterling firefighter's line-of-duty ...

Nov. 12—The widow of a Sterling firefighter killed in the line of duty testified at the Whiteside County Courthouse on Wednesday, telling a 12-member jury how her husband's death four years ago has ...

This is the latest installment in our Holy Ground series, and the continuation of a story we first told you about Nik Jakobs and his journey to salvage a synagogue halfway across the country. Loading ...

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A total of 128 high school football teams entered the second round of the Illinois High School Association playoffs with games Friday and Saturday across the state. Seven programs from the Journal ...

Sterling area families are getting worried about whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds will be disbursed in November, and local non-profits are being affected by it. Three non-profit ...