For the second time in as many years, Cathy Thurston of Crystal Lake found herself behind a spotting scope in search of eagles. This year she only saw about 30 golden eye ducks scooting about the Fox River just south of the Algonquin dam. Earlier in...

A lot of brain power from community groups and government entities continues to flow into ideas and plans for enhancing activities and healthy lifestyles with the Fox River at its core. The key now is to transfer that brain power into physical impro...

The Shodeen Family Foundation is continuing its quest to raze the circa 1843 limestone blacksmith shop at the Mill Race property, 4 E. State St., Geneva, insisting in documents that the structure cannot be reused, repurposed or relocated. The Geneva...

What if we could bring back all the nature that urban and suburban sprawl has kicked out? OK, we're not going to turn the whole Chicago area back to an open area of prairie and forests. But a lot can be done even amid the concrete and asphalt. The A...

Elgin Mayor David Kaptain will have to defeat a city council member to win a fourth term in the April election. Council member Corey Dixon filed his paperwork Monday afternoon with the clerk's office to challenge Kaptain, who has been in office sinc...

Elgin has taken its first steps down the long road to replacing a pair of downtown bridges. The city council gave preliminarily approval Wednesday for engineering services through agreements with a pair of firms that will oversee the early phases o...

Fall has settled in as peak color season brings all of its splendor, making it time to share some of our favorite walking areas and those touted by others. You may see a lot of this sort of thing posted on Facebook by prolific walkers, bird watchers...

Join a thousand Friends on Saturday, Sept. 17, for the largest Fox River watershed-wide celebration of the year - It's Our Fox River Day! The Friends of the Fox River is on a mission to protect, preserve and restore the Fox River watershed. It's Our...

Friends of the Fox River will host "Dam Night Out," with a focus on Fox River dams, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24, at Two Brothers Roundhouse, 205 N. Broadway in Aurora and Riveredge Park. Friends president Gary Swick invites the community to this fr...