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

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

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

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

After a dusting to half inch of snow early this morning we go on to see clearing skies and highs anywhere from the teens to single digits. Feel like numbers will drop below zero. Clear tonight and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A critical shortage of O-negative blood and platelets has the Rock River Valley Blood Center asking for help from the ...