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The Illinois Department of Natural Resources closed the upper and lower Fox River at 4 p.m. Thursday due to hazardous navigation conditions.
Earlier in the day, the lower and upper rivers were under no-wake restrictions as of 8:30 a.m.
On Wednesday,...
Updated: May 01, 2020 at 10:43 PM
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 ...
Updated: Mar 02, 2020 at 08:29 AM
LAKE VILLA - On February 7, State Representative Tom Weber (R-Lake Villa) held a meeting of officials to address high water and flooding problems for communities along the waterway of the Fox River and Chain O'Lakes. Officials from the U.S. Army Cor...
Updated: Feb 12, 2020 at 10:36 AM
Photographers are used to working under tight deadlines. High school sports, school board meetings and breaking news are among the variety of assignments where we are asked to search for and submit defining moments from often complex situations.
An ...
Updated: Jan 09, 2020 at 06:43 AM
Here's a look back at some of the biggest news stories in 2019 in the Fox Valley:
The death of AJ Freund
The body of missing Crystal Lake 5-year-old AJ Freund was recovered from a field near Woodstock April 24, less than a week after his parents rep...
Updated: Jan 03, 2020 at 06:25 AM
If Batavia Mayor Jeff Schielke had his way, the dam along the Fox River in his community would be taken out. It's kind of personal with him.
“I have a tainted view of dams, going back to when I was an active member of the Batavia volunteer fire depa...
Updated: Oct 20, 2019 at 10:05 AM
When do you use drones for news coverage and where can you fly them? How high do they go? How fast? What's their camera and video resolution? How long does their battery last? And what about privacy?
Those were among myriad questions that Daily Hera...
Updated: Sep 27, 2019 at 02:48 PM
As floodwaters receded off streets and out of yards Saturday in Lincolnshire neighborhoods near the Des Plaines River, village Public Works Director Brad Woodbury was relieved the flooding wasn't as severe as originally projected.
But he wasn't abou...
Updated: Sep 16, 2019 at 02:23 PM
Forty seconds.
That's the length of time that elapsed between the successful rescue of three boaters stranded on the Fox River and the moment their disabled vessel plunged over the dam.
Had St. Charles firefighters been delayed at all — had they bee...
Updated: Aug 26, 2019 at 03:28 PM
After rescuing two families in less than a week from the Fox River - including Sunday when crews plucked three people from a boat less than 30 seconds before it went over the dam - St. Charles officials are looking for ways to warn boaters when bad ...
Updated: Jul 02, 2019 at 01:43 PM