"No $36 million tax increase. Not now. Not there." That's the message you can print out on business cards, through a document offered on saveourquarry.com. It sums up the group's two major points about the Batavia Park District referendum to build a...

With local temperatures starting their downward spiral, I have seen more big-bodied white tail deer roaming the shoulders of area roads. In fact, I had to stop and watch several 8- and 10-point bucks stuffing their faces with leaves and grass. Ext...

Either it pranced its way over the wooded trails or some numbskull dumped the carcass. Regardless of how the body of a fairly large black bear wound up in Douglas County recently, it's still a mystery for biologists and officials in the Illinois De...

Gazing at the Fox River from a distance is a whole different deal from taking in the panorama from aboard a watercraft bouncing on the river's current. Jeff Long, a Batavia native who's navigated the Fox by both canoe and kayak, said this is somethi...

Observers note that lakes on the very south end of the state should be good for weekend angling. One note of caution, though: Even though the massive rainfall has ceased to harass us, water levels on some area rivers remain high enough to create ha...

Subdivisions covered with water. House-to-house evacuations by boat. Shelters full of displaced people on cots. Foolhardy challenges of nature's wrath, and incredible acts of heroism. It's not the battered Gulf shore - it's a compilation of scenes f...

Batavia Mayor Jeff Schielke and Ald. Tom Schmitz were peeved about some reckless river behavior during last weekend's storms. "Some individuals who are sportsmen decided their calling was to put themselves in kayaks in the Fox River and fly over the...

While residents in Cook, DuPage and Kane counties continue to wrestle with flooded homes and streets, Lake County officials are breathing a sigh of relief. The Chain O' Lakes, Fox River and Des Plaines River in Lake County remained well below flood...