Claire O'Brien

Woodstock officials have approved the city’s annual budget – including funding for the controversial Flock security cameras downtown. City Council members gave themselves an out when approving the cameras, saying they could still defund them.

Lake in the Hills officials have granted another extension for a solar farm to be constructed.

Several Crystal Lake community leaders were honored for their achievements at a luncheon on Thursday.

Parts of McHenry County along the Fox River and Chain O’Lakes should see floodwaters begin to recede, but the process will be slow, and cleanup challenging.

As floodwaters finally top out and begin slowly to recede along the Fox River and Chain O’ Lakes, McHenry County officials are asking people to document and report flood damage.

River Road near McHenry is closed because of floodwaters, the latest road closure resulting from the Fox River overflowing its banks.

Road closures, park closures, more sandbagging and – with a break in the rainfall – the waiting game for waters to top out were the focuses Monday along the Fox River in the McHenry County area.

Five months after the Thompson’s Appliances building in downtown Woodstock partially collapsed, the city pumped the brakes on legal action to get the remaining structure torn down.

Authorities have identified a man who was found dead in a Woodstock homeless encampment and determined whether it was a natural death.

Firefighters doused a blaze that broke out late Sunday in a Crystal Lake home.

Almost 10,000 more people voted Democratic in the March primary in McHenry County. Was that simply indicative of more competitive races on that side of the aisle, or a bigger political shift?

After initial skepticism, Lake in the Hills officials have given the go-ahead for a new car wash on Randall Road.

A car veered off Route 14 in Woodstock on Saturday and hit several cars in the Culver's parking lot.

The Fox River is rising in McHenry and Kane counties and is expected to crest next week.

Utility work in anticipation of the Kreutzer Road widening in Huntley is due to begin next week, Village Manager Dave Johnson said Thursday.