Ryan Welty plans to attend Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, and major in political science.

Led by a number of local standouts, the Sauk Valley Community College women's tennis team qualified for nationals this past weekend.

David Tessmann of Sterling has been named to the 2025 spring trimester dean’s list at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Main Campus in Davenport, Iowa.

With Halloween creeping closer, here is a list of trick-or-treat hours and other holiday and fall-themed events you can visit with your little ghosts and ghouls.

Sterling freshman Sophia Davis ran to 10th at the Western Big 6 meet. Dixon still has a chance to clinch the BNC title on Tuesday after a loss, and more in Thursday's Sauk Valley roundup.

Although a shorthanded Sterling lost to Galesburg on Thursday night, the Golden Warriors still gained valuable experience as freshman Kylie Shank led the team in kills.

The Dixon Public School Board is looking into contracting with a solar vendor to potentially decrease its energy costs over the long term.

The Illinois General Assembly is expected to address transit funding, energy, grid reform and property insurance, among other issues, during its fall veto session.

Whiteside County sheriff’s deputies were called at 3:40 a.m. Thursday, to a single-vehicle ATV crash on Mellotts Road, west of Fenton