Steve Johnson is known in Elgin Area School District U-46 as a "super involved principal, attending summer reading events each week every summer with his school as well as summer field trips and much more." Johnson, who has led Highland Elementary S...

KINGSTON, N.Y. (AP) - From her clifftop cottage, Carolyn Marks Blackwood enjoys a sweeping view of the Hudson River and distant Catskill Mountains that once inspired the painter Frederick Church. Now, she says, the riverscape has been turned some da...

For the past 14 years, the federal No Child Left Behind Act served as the benchmark for how our schoolchildren were faring. But the law drew considerable criticism for its emphasis on test scores, its labeling of some school districts as “failing” ...

All season long the Minnesota Lynx and Los Angeles Sparks have been the best two teams in the WNBA. Thanks to the new playoff format, the pair of Western Conference teams will meet in the WNBA Finals. Game 1 is Sunday. A year ago these two powerhous...

The Bartlett football team on Saturday sampled what a growing number of Americans have tried - working from home. For the first time since the fourth of Elgin Area School District U-46's five high schools started playing football in 1998, the Hawks ...

Staff Sgt. Adam Thomas, a 2003 graduate of Larkin High School in Elgin, died this week while serving in Afghanistan. Thomas, 31, died of injuries caused by an improvised explosive device that exploded during dismounted operations Tuesday in Nangarha...

With the longtime incumbent not seeking re-election, voters in the state's 22nd Senate District will have a new - and distinct - choice Nov. 8 between Republican Tracy Smodilla and Democrat Cristina Castro. Castro, 38, a Kane County Board member, an...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Immigration authorities caught just over half of the people who illegally entered the U.S. from Mexico last year, according to a report commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security that offers one of the most detailed assessm...