The Elgin Area School District U-46 board Monday approved school fee increases for the first time in several years. The move will allow the district, which plans to cut more than $31 million from next year's budget, to add roughly $125,000 to its co...

Facing a potentially devastating cut in state aid, officials in Community Unit District 300 are considering taking the unusual step of releasing 140 to 160 first- and second-year teachers, union and district leaders said Monday. The downsizing would...

Springtime home improvement projects like painting the exterior or landscaping the yard may not quite be on your radar given the temperatures outside, but Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley is looking for eligible homeowners to participate ...

A Carpentersville commission wants to know what it will take to keep businesses in town and how to attract new ones. At its first meeting this week, the village's newly-formed business development commission outlined plans to survey hundreds of busi...

Dual language program Community Unit District 300 is hosting information sessions in March about its dual language program, which provides instruction in Spanish and English to elementary schoolchildren. Sessions on Liberty Elementary School'...

Hanover Park insiders won't soon forget the political strife over talk of erecting a 300-foot, 100-ton wind turbine within village limits. But a different administration and scaled-back version could prove a more promising combination for Keeneyvill...

Carpentersville bull; Wilver Sanchez, 29, of the 100 block of South Porter Street, Elgin, was charged with a series of drug crimes, after he sold cocaine on Jan. 17 to an undercover officer within 1,000 feet of a school, police said. His bond...