Rockford approved $622,000 to launch a mobile grocery store aimed at bringing fresh food to underserved areas.

What: Area residents are invited to begin celebrating our nation's 250th birthday with a street festival featuring live music and a cultural parade followed by a performance by the Rockford Symphony ...

Residents are being reminded that consumer fireworks are illegal within the City of Rockford. The Rockford Fire Department is urging the community to celebrate safely by attending professional, ...

Illinois residents can now access more types of prescription contraception directly from pharmacists. The Illinois Department of Public Health updated its contraceptive standing order to include ...

Residents in Winnebago and Boone counties can find relief from the heat at several designated cooling centers.

Forty-six Rockford area adults graduated from the new Goodwill Excel Center, a tuition-free adult high school. This was the first graduating class from the program in Illinois, which helps adults earn ...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin visited Rockford to deliver the keynote address at the Goodwill Excel Center's first adult high school ...

Byron's Andrew Talbert has been a key contributor as the Indiana Mustangs BennieBoys 16U National Team takes on some of the ...

The weekend brings Severson Dells’ 50 th Birthday Celebration, River District’s Lemonade Hop and the Prince Experience, along ...

ROCKFORD, IL — America turns 250 years old on July 4, 2026, and communities across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin are pulling out all the stops with fireworks shows, parades, concerts and ...

Andrew Talbert, a star pitcher and star quarterback for the Byron Tigers, hurt his throwing elbow at the end of this most recent baseball season, and the way things finished up, there was some doubt ...

This unique home on 2.8 acres built in 1974 has four bedrooms and three bathrooms. This architecturally distinctive ...