Tim Durkee News Today

Rockford has some suggestions for spending its $31 million surplus. Here's how it got the windfall in the first place.

Rockford City Council on Monday insisted that Barber-Colman developer forge an agreement with unionized labor, placing the development at risk.

City officials are defending the amount of time it took for police to share information about the man wanted for the fatal shooting of Peggy Anderson.

County board candidates identify public safety, economic development and fiscal responsibility as key issues in District 19 race.

Sue Goral has headed the Winnebago County Treasurers Office for 22 years. She faces a challenge at the ballot box to stay on the job.

Rockford Area Arts Council wins three-year funding agreement from city despite misgivings of some aldermen to a multiyear financial deal.

Aldermen voted 10-2 Monday night to close State Street on Friday nights this summer from Wyman to Madison streets.

Rockford Ald. Mark Bonne is proposing to repeal a rule requiring a supermajority to declare a property a landmark over an owners objection.

ROCKFORD — Revenue generated by a 3% tax on the sale of recreational cannabis will be spent in areas of the city disproportionately impacted by marijuana laws, under a resolution approved by the City Council.  Aldermen created a cannabis fund designed to support programs for economic and business development, education, job training and youth programming. “I believe it’s absolutely a good idea,” Alderwoman Venita Hervey, D-5, said. “If we’re going to sell marijuana, then let’s ...

ROCKFORD — City Council this week agreed to support what could become the first new residential development in downtown in decades with up to $4.5 million in public subsidies. Davenport, Iowa-based Bush Construction is working with the Rockford Public Library to develop the more than $22 million, six-story building on property north of a new library expected to open in 2022 at 227 N. Wyman St.  The 146,000-square-foot, mixed-use building plans call for a riverfront restaurant, retail...