Michelle Meyer

Algonquin-based Community School District 300 board has approved a new three-year contract with the district’s teacher union.

Ten accomplished mentors, businesswomen, organizers, local leaders and family pillars are honored by Shaw Media/Northwest Herald with 2025 Women of Distinction awards on Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

The developer of Water's Edge in Crystal Lake received a $14 million incentive package from the city, and will also now get revenue from a new 1% sales tax that will imposed on shoppers there.

Two people suffered minor injuries from a car crash that resulted in two vehicles crashing into a ditch Tuesday morning in Woodstock, officials report.

Friends of a Crystal Lake family start a fundraiser to help them recover after losing their home and five pets in a fire while they were at Six Flags Great America.

A driver suffered serious injuries from a two-vehicle crash that resulted both cars ending up in a field and one flipping Monday afternoon near Marengo, officials report.

Wisconsin police has arrested two suspects, one being a McHenry woman, in a nearly 22-year-old cold case murder investigation, officials report.

A leak of industrial-grade hydrogen peroxide Sunday morning at Baxter Healthcare in Round Lake led to an employee evacuation, officials said.

A man was flown with serious injuries after being pinned inside his car from a crash involving a semi-truck Sunday afternoon near Harvard, officials report.

Hundreds of people gathered for the 2nd annual Downtown Crystal Lake Pride Walk & Social Sunday as a kickoff to June being Pride Month.

Hundreds participated in downtown Crystal Lake's 2nd annual Pride Walk and Social Sunday.

The Illinois Tollway aims to connect small, diverse and veteran-owned firms with resources and training that will increase their opportunities to provide goods and services to the Tollway and other government agencies

Crystal Lake resident McKenna Dunn, 24, and her father, James Dunn, have taken over the paddleboard rental business at The Board House at Three Oaks Recreation Area.

As the future of a 19th-century building that served as Crystal Lake’s first school is in limbo over a pending landmark vote by City Council, historic advocates push fundraising efforts to save it.

Four Marengo Fire & Rescue Districts firefighters were honored for their lifesaving efforts on a man who was suffering from a cardiac arrest. He surprised them with a donation.