Sterling had multiple athletes named All-Western Big 6 Conference in baseball, softball and girls soccer.

Fire Chief David Northcutt and several members of the Sterling Fire Department and their families were on hand as Brandon Monical was officially welcomed into the SFD ranks.

Here's a list of the awards and honors presented at the May 22 promotion ceremony.

An outdoor fire broke out late Tuesday morning at Cimco Recycling Center in Sterling, with over 21 fire, EMS or sheriff’s departments called in to help put out a shred pile blaze at the back of the property.

The Coliseum Museum in Oregon recently announced the opening of the second annual Around the Farm art exhibit featuring 35 artists from across the northern Illinois area, on display from June 6-July 18.

A fee of $75 is charged to cover the spay or neuter procedure, anesthesia, pain medication, and one-year rabies and distemper vaccines.

Over 2,000 people are estimated to have come to the Rochelle Railroad Park on Tuesday to see the Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 steam locomotive make a whistle stop.

Hundreds of people stood along both sides of the Union Pacific tracks on Wallace Street in downtown Sterling on Tuesday to get a look at Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 as it made its way east on a coast-to-coast tour to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States.

The Dixon Police Department in a recent Facebook post said there are several things motorists and motorcyclists can do to make roads safer.