ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Cars glide past as families collect their kids off Parkview Avenue and Birchwood Drive in Rockford.

The WIFR team is participating in the 2025 Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Illinois!

Families argue drivers fly by while students wait off the road for their school bus.

FREEPORT, Ill. (WIFR) - The Freeport Art Museum installed a new addition to the Freeport Arts Plaza on Monday. The Gateway ...

Don’t get too used to the warmer temperatures, as their stay here is to be extremely brief. Temperatures will revert back to ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A $9.5 million settlement with a man wrongfully convicted of murder more than 30 years ago now is ...

A Roscoe family thanks the community for its support while sharing sad news that their loved one, 14-year-old Ashton O’Banion ...

The Blue Knights Chapter V law enforcement motorcycle club raised money at the IceHogs game Sunday.

Community members and lawmakers mourn the death of former 67th District Representative Charles “Chuck” Jefferson of Rockford.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Gary Carlson, a longtime photojournalist for the Rockford region, has died at the age of 86. Carlson ...

(WIFR) - Frank Fiorello, a local author, artist and founder of The Pumpkin Patch in Caledonia, died Dec. 16, 2024 in Las ...

Photo taken by longtime Rockford Register Star photographer Gary Carlson. Carlson died Jan. 11, 2025 at the age of 86.