Nine students at Ottawa Township High School received first- or second-place ribbons in the Interstate 8 Art Conference at Sycamore High School on Saturday, March 14. Their scores propelled OTHS to first place overall in the competition.

Here is the BCR boys tennis preview featuring the Princeton and St. Bede boys teams

Bureau Valley's Maddie Wetzell has made a good run with the Bureau Valley track team with more to come. She knows now where that run will continue. The Storm senior has committed to run for lllinois Wesleyan University next year. She plans to study Kinesiology.

The Sandwich baseball team dropped a pair of games in Tennessee on Thursday, while Dwight earned a one-run Tri-County Conference victory over Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell.

Steve Danielson & Roger Powell Sr. first met in the fall of 1972 on the campus of ISU. Steve, who is white, was a farm boy from rural Wyanet; Roger, was a young black man from the inner city in Joliet. They struck up a lasting friendship that lasted 55 years until Powell’s death

Princeton Christian Academy recently released its honor roll for the third quarter of the 2025-26 school year.

Here's a look at the Bureau County boys class of 2026 scoring leaders, plus the leaders from other classes

Ahead of Major League Baseball’s opening day this week, Utica’s Fireside White Sox Club is celebrating its 20-year anniversary coming off a record-setting year in fundraising.

The Ottawa Police Department will host a sensory-friendly family event for Autism Acceptance Month on Wednesday, April 1, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Reddick Library Community Room.

4th Ward Alderman Mark Peasley announced that with the help of Mendota Project Director Annie Short, the city of Mendota is looking to utilize the Team Up app for deciding basic usage of public parks, fields and courts.