After hearing both sides of the proposed wind farm project, the DeKalb County Planning and Regulations Committee voted in favor of passing the petition to the full DeKalb County Board meeting on Feb. 19. Six members showed their approval, while three...

Get this: A soon-to-be groom attends a bachelor party, wakes up the next morning only to find one of the stripper/dancers from his party in bed with him, and later discovers the dancer really is the cousin of his future bride. This is the rather weak...

If your team didn't make it to the Super Bowl this year, if you lost all your money betting on the playoff championship games and if John Madden's uncontrollable ability to point out the blatantly obvious is in rare form, you still can bet on wild Super...

All too often some of the best albums ever made are overlooked by the general public. MTV and the average radio station choose to play only what they think the listeners will buy into. Last spring, acid jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood released one...

The NIU School of Theatre and Dance will put on "A Man's a Man," an anti-war comedic musical drama that follows an ordinary man as he travels the path to moral corruption. -The man, a waterfront porter, got tricked into the British army and became a killing...

With the opening of the Convocation Center, the Chick Evans Field House no longer was needed for basketball and volleyball games. But it is not going to sit and collect dust; it will be turned into another outlet for NIU students to work out. Currently,...

Two car accidents within two hours Tuesday afternoon left two victims injured. One took place when a speeding Chevorlet Cavalier ran a red light about 2:30 p.m. The car smashed into two cars at the intersection of Annie Glidden Road and Hillcrest Drive....

Residence hall students should have one person on their floor that they are able to turn to in times of trouble or who are just there to talk to. This person is the community adviser - more commonly known as the CA. Currently, there are 141 CAs on campus....

The District 428 School Board committee hopes to see a referendum for the third time. The board voted 4 to 1 for the referendum to be put on the April 1 ballot at Tuesday night’s school board meeting. Since the vote wasn’t unanimous, there were some...

NIU football’s Al Chaires, who began the year as the No. 4 fullback, will have a court date in February. The 22-year-old senior sociology major was arrested about 1:50 a.m. Saturday outside of The Dungeon night club, 1027 W. Hillcrest Drive, on two...

It’s on-campus, inexpensive and professional. Their staff can help smokers quit and prepare partygoers for Spring Break. Plus, students don’t have to be full time to get the free stuff they have. Just one hour of credit on-campus makes a student eligible...

NIU President John Peters has had a front row seat watching the university’s national profile move in a positive direction; but rather than holding a bucket of popcorn, he has been holding the reins. "It really has been a very good two and a half years,"...