ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Christopher T. Baer, PE, is appointed to Executive Director of Four Rivers Sanitation Authority. The ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Rockford Public Schools is hiring for all positions across the district at a job fair on Wednesday.

(WIFR) - The Center for Disease Control and Prevention confirms Illinois’ first human case of West Nile virus of 2025. A ...

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WIFR) - Police ask for assistance from residents in an investigation of mail theft. Police say the incident ...

Thursday will offer more sunshine across the region, but highs will jump back into the lower to mid-90s. Combine this with our humidity and our heat index values will jump to the upper 90s.

A man suffers a non-life-threatening injury from a shooting early Wednesday morning, according to investigators.

The Greater Freeport Partnership is the recipient of the T-Mobile Hometown Grant, allowing a pocket park to be put downtown.

Crops like strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries have been hit by an intense heat, leading to supply and quality issues ...

‘It means the world to us’: Central Terrace Co-Op in Rockford receives $930K for home improvements ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A Rockford man learns his fate for trafficking drugs and having a loaded gun. Jovino Ramirez, 35, ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expected to announce Thursday he plans to run for reelection, according to multiple reports.

Alec Hoffman of Winnebago is identified as the 26-year-old killed Saturday night in a Rock County crash. A fourth person has ...