The Fox Waterway Agency in Fox Lake that, due to high water, the lower river has been declared a no wake zone. The lower river is between the Stratton-Bolger Lock and Dam in McHenry and the Algonquin Dam in Algonquin. Officials said high water and ...

I tried to reach four friends and a few acquaintances to get a handle as to how they did crappie fishing. No one answered their phones, so I assumed they had to be out chasing the slabs. It's that time you know. As much as I wanted to be with them,...

"It's about time someone issued some rules as to how teachers should behave." You know its cold when they start cutting ice from the river." "I think Elgin should open one of those 'open air schools' for students with tuberculosis." These are some ...

Don't go running off to the north woods just yet so as to get a jump on ice fishing. Carl Novelli reports even though it has been cold and some back channels have skim ice on them around the Hayward and Cable, Wis., areas, there's not much safe ice...

For the sixth week in a row, it's raining on a Friday. The rain that began falling overnight is expected to drop about an inch an a half before it leaves the area sometime Friday evening. In the meantime the National Weather Service has issued a f...

With the spate of extra-mild weather upon us, angling on inland lakes and ponds has been nothing short of spectacular. Fox Chain: Excellent crappie fishing off the Spring Lake Channel as well as on Bluff Lake. Very good bluegill action on Pistakee L...

The Geneva City Council Monday decided a building in its historic district can get aluminum replacement windows instead of historically-appropriate wood windows. It voted 8-0, with Alderman Dawn Vogelsberg recusing herself, to let Shodeen Inc. put t...

The Geneva City Council Monday decided a building in its historic district can get aluminum replacement windows instead of historically-appropriate wood windows. It voted 8-0, with Alderman Dawn Vogelsberg recusing herself, to let Shodeen Inc. put t...