DeKalb Critical Mass will be hitting the streets Friday in costumes for a Halloween-themed bicycle ride. The Committee of Preservation of Wildlife will also be participating. The committee was set up to help organize, participate and publicize with the...

Bicyclists looking for a way to make their ride stand out from the rest have local options. North Central Cyclery, 534 E. Lincoln Highway, Blue Moon Bikes, 211 W. State St., Sycamore, and the roving Mobile Bike Command (based in DeKalb) provide great...

Students will soon be paying less for college. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 will make college more affordable with no additional cost from taxpayers. Over the next five years, the Pell Grant will be increased $11.4 billion in funding....

Autumn is sweeping through DeKalb treetops, and local bike paths offer routes away from the exhaust and tumult of traffic to appreciate the season. Although in certain areas the routes are indiscernible from streets and exist only as green rectangular...

The DeKalb City Council continued to work on zoning issues at Monday night's meeting. Both October city council meetings have been largely devoted to voting on residents' appeals of rezoning in the Maplewood neighborhood, according to city staff. The...

The DeKalb Liquor Commission revised the city's liquor license plans to consider current liquor license holders exempt from future license classes. The liquor commission has been discussing the idea of creating new licenses. It was proposed that current...

An NIU student was the victim of an attempted robbery early Friday morning. At 2:04 a.m. in the 700 block of Annie Glidden Road, the student was walking alone on the sidewalk when she was approached by three men. One of the suspects asked the student...

Many state and local governments have chosen to take land and environmental conservation into their own hands despite dwindling federal conservation programs and massive Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget cuts. Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently...

A home now unfit for human habitation, hundreds of animals with uncertain futures and their former caretaker committed to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. More information has come to light in the Rochelle animal-hoarding case. Officials have said...

Six robberies have been reported since the beginning of the semester in the northwest area of city. Of these six, five involved NIU students and each incident occurred in about a one-week time frame of the others. The incidents occurred between the hours...

This Halloween, students looking for spine-tingling tales of ghosts and hauntings to read around the fire may come across the nonfiction series of ghost stories written by none other than 1973 NIU alumnus Michael Norman. Norman's series of books: "Haunted...

Methamphetamines, also referred to as "speed," "ice," or "crystal meth," are closer than you might think. Recently, the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) launched a new drug campaign called The Anti-Meth Campaign. The campaign is targeted...