COLUMBUS — Unlike last year when it won 23 games and reached a second straight Central Jersey Group 4 final, this season has been a rocky ride for the Northern Burlington softball team.

A severe solar storm on Sunday has ignited hopes for a dazzling display of northern lights farther south than usual in the United States and maybe even across Illinois skies. As the clock ticked ...

George T. (Ted) Zimmerman, 96, was born Jan. 27th, 1929 in Mendota, Illinois to Paul and Ruth (Lutz) Zimmerman and died May 9, 2025 in Oregon, Illinois. He spent his boyhood in Earlville ...

Senior Mikayla Fontana dialed up a strong showing at both the plate and in the circle to lead Northern Burlington to an 8-1 victory over Notre Dame in Columbus. Fontana had two hits and two RBI at ...

Toms River East will face the winner of Shawnee/Hightstown in the semifinals on Thursday. Northern Burlington fell to 15-7.

Fog over Lake Michigan drifted inland across northern and northeast Illinois this morning, with some patches becoming locally dense, according to the NWS. A dense fog advisory is in place until 10 ...

My slider was there at the end. I even mixed in my change-up.” Northern Burlington 6-foot-1 sophomore right-hander Logan Downey had 11 more pitches in 6⅓ innings of work. He kept head coach ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Unemployment rates in northern Illinois communities and counties decreased in April and were down from last year, according to figures released by the Illinois Department of ...

(NEXSTAR) — A “powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun” on Friday sparked severe-level geomagnetic storms on Earth, giving many across the U.S. the chance to see the northern lights ...

Lafayette, Indiana, 2026 edge defender Aaden Aytch has been verbally committed to Northern Illinois since April 16, but he will be on the University of Minnesota campus for an official visit from ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, may be visible near the Canadian border on June 1, with parts of Montana ...

The National Weather Service office in Burlington is predicting "scattered showers will continue through the evening, increasing in coverage for northern and upslope areas." The sun is currently ...