When is fire a good thing? When it's a carefully controlled, prescribed burn in your local Kane County forest preserves! Each spring and fall, the Forest Preserve District of Kane County conducts prescribed burns across prairies, woodlands and wetla...

It may sound strange, but sometimes a straight line can lead to a full-circle moment. That's the case along a stretch of South McHenry Avenue in Crystal Lake, where Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley completed a nine-home subdivision projec...

Carpentersville is going to the streets to honor veterans. Banners paying tribute to 59 Carpentersville veterans line Main Street and will remain on display through November. Veterans Day is Nov. 11. "We're proud of them and the history of veteran...

A chain of nonprofit health centers serving the Chicago area and some downstate communities has received a $9 million donation from a billionaire's philanthropic organization. Aunt Martha's Health and Wellness, which has facilities in Palatine, ...

A 16-year-old Carpentersville boy has joined his older cousin in facing first-degree murder charges stemming from last week's fatal shooting of a teenage boy in a parked vehicle. Jimmy Medina, of the 200 block of Ensenada Drive, is charged with two...

A 19-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Carpentersville teenager last week. Alan U. Medina, of the 100 block of Pecos Circle in Carpentersville, also is charged with the attempted murder of two other teenager...

A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting on Carpentersville's east side Wednesday night. Police were called to the 0-100 block of Birch Street just after 8:30 p.m. for reports of shots being fired in the area. Whe...