Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District officials say they plan to be a good neighbor if a new station for ambulance calls is built near a middle school and a building serving young children on an unincorporated site along Dundee Road. Fire ...

Here's a listing of local events planned for Tuesday to recall the almost 3,000 lives lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “Remembering those brave people who lost their lives 17 years ago during the 9/11 tragedy is important as our country moves...

Ten years ago, Barrington residents predicted that running enormous CN trains on the sleepy EJ & E tracks through town would clog traffic, hamstring first responders and slow ambulances. On June 12 at 4:41 p.m., those warnings coalesced in a "perfec...

Heavy rains in a short time brought flooding throughout the suburbs, trapping cars and prompting a rescue by boat. Exmoor Avenue flooded at Northwest Highway in Barrington, forcing the police department to rescue a passenger from a flooded vehicle a...

YouTube #8220;I was trying to write a story not of tragedy, but of triumph,#8221; says Pemberton, 50, whose first, foggy memory of life is the day he was taken from his mother and would never see her again. Sent to his first foster home at age 4, P...

Lightning may be to blame for a fire that tore through a nearly 9,000-square-foot Barrington Hills home after violent storms pushed through the region early Thursday morning. If that's confirmed, it would put the blaze among the rarest categories of...

Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District has honored a longtime board trustee heading into retirement. Barrington Hills resident Paul Heinze received the kudos at a recent meeting for his nearly 25 years of service on the fire board. Departm...

An East Dundee resident was hospitalized with burn injuries and three cats were taken to an animal hospital after a fire broke out at a family's house Saturday morning, authorities said. Paramedics with the East Dundee Fire Protection District took...