State Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, has announced several area library districts are receiving grant funding to help ensure all residents have access to quality resources and programming.

For young families, TLP in Mount Carroll is offering special movie nights including “Paw Patrol - The Mighty Movie” on Aug. 31, Halloweentown on Oct. 19, and The Polar Express on Dec. 21. Tickets for these family-friendly films are priced at $5 for youths and $10 for adults.

The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is celebrating 100 years of conservation and recreation in 2024.

Economic Growth Corporation is inviting state-licensed childcare operators to submit proposals for leasing and operating an early childhood development center within its Shimer Square campus in Mt. Carroll.

Two area towns each will receive a Community Development Block Grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity that will be used “to make critical repairs to water, sewer, and drainage infrastructure,” the governor’s office said in a news release.

Madison Wescott of Rock Falls has found a way to pay for college with a twist – a twist of lemon, that is.

About 300 drag racers heading from one race in Cordova to another in Byron will be roaring through the Sauk Valley on Monday.

Two motorcyclists, one from Dixon, died Sunday night in a collision with a car, the State Police said Tuesday.

Firefighters led volunteers in erecting sandbag wall and now are refueling gasoline pumps to keep the cresting waters at bay.