Erie

An Erie man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl.

Whiteside County deputies were dispatched to the intersection of Gaulrapp Road and Elston Road in rural Erie for a single-vehicle crash with injuries.

Two longtime local law officers are duking it out Tuesday for sheriff of Whiteside County: incumbent Democrat John F. Booker, 55, of Sterling, and Tampico Chief of Police Mike Lewis, 51, of Rock Falls, a Republican.

Whiteside County voters will be asked Tuesday to increase the countywide sales tax by 1%. Here's why.

Dixon Municipal Airport and Erie Airpark were among only six statewide to be singled out as Illinois Department of Transportation 2022 airports of the year Tuesday at the Illinois Public Airports Association Fall Conference in Galena.

Services are set for Jim Shirk, 40, of Erie, the kayaker who drowned Tuesday in the Rock River in Dixon.

The kayaker whose body was found in the Rock River near Rock River Estates in Dixon drowned, an autopsy conducted Thursday revealed.

Sixteen Sauk Valley-area school districts and the Whiteside Area Career Center are recipients of some of the $30 million in Illinois State Board of Education school maintenance grants.

The memorial service included placing a new marker at the grave of Alexander Thompson, the only known Revolutionary War veterans buried in Whiteside County.

Two of the Sauk Valley’s largest school districts – and apparently, most others – are making mask-wearing optional in the wake of a temporary restraining order issued Friday by a Sangamon County Circuit Court judge that nullifies Gov. JB Pritzker’s emergency provision issued in A

Rock Island’s former chief of police is Whiteside County’s new chief deputy.

No sign, no building … there’s nothing left that would give passersby on Moline Road any indication that they just breezed through a once bustling former railroad site between Erie and Lyndon.

Originally known as the home of the 19 cents hamburger, the Pink Pony closes after more than 70 years.

A Prophetstown man and his nephew are on the hook for potentially breaking the state record for largest shovel-nosed sturgeon ever taken in Illinois – a record they broke within a month of each other, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports.

Erie officer and Sterling native Brian Hawk is the new village chief of police.