The TALK-LINE interview for June 24 featured the second vice president of the 2025 Dixon Petunia Festival, Leah Nelson, previewing the entire event starting with pre-festival information leading up to the four-day celebration, running July 3 through 6.

Gina Venier says singing the national anthem July 2 at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs game “will be one of the most special days of my life.”

Attending a quinceanera in Tala, Mexico was Vida Rubio’s motivation to set up shop Monday, June 23, 2025, along busy Galena Avenue in Dixon.

Looking for something to do in the Sauk Valley? Here are five suggestions.

The Rock Falls Chamber of Commerce’s Summer Splash did its best to cool down visitors Saturday, June 21, 2025.

The TALK-LINE interview for June 23 featured 2025 Reagan Run Committee member Nancy Varga, spotlighting the 25th Reagan Run 5K Run/Walk coming up on Saturday, July 5, during the annual Dixon Petunia Festival.

A Rock Falls High School athlete who suffered a broken neck that left him partially paralyzed during a March 15 track meet has filed a lawsuit against Sterling’s park district, the Sterling School District and Rock Falls High School District in connection with the injury.

Less than a month after he was sentenced to probation in Lee County on a felony weapons charge, a Dixon man has been charged in Whiteside County with felony weapon and drug offenses.

The ban was approved by the Illinois legislature in January 2023. It bans the sale, purchase and manufacturing of firearms that the legislature defined as “assault weapons,” such as AR-15-style rifles.