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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

As a brewing thunderstorm whipped winds and churned waves on the Fox River, three people in a boat drifted dangerously close to the dam in St. Charles. The boat was having engine trouble about 1,000 yards north of the dam about 1:24 p.m. Sunday, an...

Three people were rescued Sunday afternoon as their boat drifted dangerously close to the Fox River Dam in St. Charles, authorities said. St. Charles Fire Department rescue crews called to the scene at 1:24 p.m. arrived to find two adults and a te...