Editor's note: Information was added about whether removing the dam would have an effect on Walton Island. Just a week after Batavia approved removal of its dam, environmentalists pitched a plan Wednesday in Elgin to remove the Kimball Street d...

After decades of debate, plans are being made to remove the Batavia dam while preserving nearby Depot Pond with pledges of $75,000 apiece from the city and the Batavia Park District. The Batavia City Council and the Park District Board participated ...

More than 900 boats on Sunday traveled from the Stratton Lock and Dam in McHenry and across the Chain O' Lakes in a show of support for President Donald Trump. The display was one of several that took place throughout the country during the Labor Da...

Water rescues near dams can be particularly harrowing as the churning waters known as "the boil" can pull in people and rescuers. The Elgin Fire Department is painfully familiar with that, after two of its own died in 1974 during a rescue near the c...

A woman whose boat capsized and was clinging to a tree in near the Stratton Lock and Dam in McHenry was rescued from the Fox River without injury Saturday night, McHenry Township Fire Protection District officials said. District firefighters respond...

Residents across the suburbs spent Monday bailing out basements and navigating around impassable roads after a wet weekend overwhelmed local waterways and challenged flood prevention systems. But aside from a chance of rain early Tuesday, the Natio...

As heavy rains poured down on the region throughout the day, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for the entire Chicago area Sunday and warned of rising waters along the Des Plaines River in Lake and Cook counties. The river wa...

We can return the Fox River to the vibrant conditions that Native Americans saw when they lived in the Fox River Valley. Learn how this can happen at the Friends of the Fox River Schweitzer Environmental Center Second Sunday program from 12:30 to 2 ...