Corey Saathoff

Despite warnings from the National Weather Service of erratic fire spread from outdoor burning, several area departments responded to multiple fire incidents on a wild weather Sunday.

Several local high school track and field athletes competed this past weekend in the Illinois Top Times Championships at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, some returning home with high placings.

The high school baseball season is now underway, with local teams pitching, hitting, fielding and running with goals of success come June. Waterloo (4-1) is looking solid at the start…

Following the recent retirement of legendary head coach Scott Horner, the Columbia High School football program is now in the hands of a longtime sidekick who bleeds blue through and through.

The 2026 high school softball season is flying by, with some local teams already having several games under their belt.

Now several games into the 2026 season, all three local high school girls soccer squads are at least .500 or much better as the schedule picks up the pace. Waterloo…

Four of the five local high school baseball squads managed to get at least one game in over the past week despite bouts of soaking rain on multiple days.

There were mixed results among the local high school softball squads over the past week.

As the calendar turns to mid-April, local high school baseball teams are starting to get a feel for what is working versus what needs work this spring.

At 11-0, the Waterloo High School girls soccer squad is off to its best start in program history. Awards don’t come until the end of the season, though, so Chad…