It was something of a pink-out in front of the main Arlington Heights fire station last week. Members from nearly all of the village departments, as well as firefighters from its three stations — all wearing pink T-shirts — gathered in front of one ...

A Carpentersville study that examines the feasibility of placing speed tables near the four schools that lost their crossing guards this school year, concludes the devices are not the answer to helping children safely cross the street in school zone...

Specialized equine rescue training helped “breed” familiarity between horse and firefighter, and practice skills needed to protect the large number of horse farms within the Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District, says Deputy Fire Chief...

Authorities are investigating the cause of an early morning fire in Barrington that left a man dead Friday. Richard Sowa, 52, lived alone in a duplex on the 400 block of June Terrace where a fire was reported by a neighbor at 6:06 a.m., said Barring...

BASTROP, Texas — Firefighting crews started Wednesday to gain control of a wind-stoked blaze that has raged unchecked across parched central Texas for days, leaving a trail of charred properties in its wake and causing thousands of people to flee. A...

Several Lake County communities will host memorial services and other events this weekend to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and a farm field in Pennsylvania. What follows is a listing of those event...