Four students from St. Mary School have been selected as winners of the OSF HealthCare Saint Katharine Medical Center elevator cling design contest, an initiative that invited students to make uplifting, original artwork to be displayed on elevators located in the hospital annex.

A car show, parade and Main Street block party are among the activities scheduled for June 6.

The event will begin at 7 a.m. and residents should have all items or brush for disposal at the curb by then.

Sterling had multiple athletes named All-Western Big 6 Conference in baseball, softball and girls soccer.

Fire Chief David Northcutt and several members of the Sterling Fire Department and their families were on hand as Brandon Monical was officially welcomed into the SFD ranks.

Here's a list of the awards and honors presented at the May 22 promotion ceremony.

An outdoor fire broke out late Tuesday morning at Cimco Recycling Center in Sterling, with over 21 fire, EMS or sheriff’s departments called in to help put out a shred pile blaze at the back of the property.

A fee of $75 is charged to cover the spay or neuter procedure, anesthesia, pain medication, and one-year rabies and distemper vaccines.

Hundreds of people stood along both sides of the Union Pacific tracks on Wallace Street in downtown Sterling on Tuesday to get a look at Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 as it made its way east on a coast-to-coast tour to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States.

The Dixon Police Department in a recent Facebook post said there are several things motorists and motorcyclists can do to make roads safer.