Construction will start Wednesday for a new elementary school in Sycamore. The District 427 Board of Education recently approved bids to start building a new elementary school to be located off Plank Road in the very northern part of the school district....

No one was injured in a structure fire Friday morning at 1521 Hulmes Drive. At 9:24 a.m., the DeKalb Fire Department responded to a structure fire at the residence east of Hopkins Park. The first arriving crews found the fire located inside the house's...

The Regional Access and Mobilization Project will host its first scavenger hunt. The RAMP scavenger hunt will provide DeKalb County residents and community leaders the opportunity to adopt a disability for a day. "The purpose is to broaden awareness within...

A Rockford resident led police on a chase Friday night in the 300 block of West Lincoln Highway. About 11:38 p.m., police attempted to stop the vehicle near downtown DeKalb when he fled west on Lincoln Highway. During the chase "stop sticks" were deployed...

A hangar at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport has turned into a makeshift animal shelter after more than 300 animals were rescued from a Rochelle home. The TAILS Humane Society received word from the Lee County Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal...

Hello all, As you probably have read in the Northern Star or the Chronicle, the TAILS Animal Shelter has taken in over two hundred dogs and cats from an animal abuse case in Rochelle. They are caring for these animals at a staging area in a hangar at...

Police arrested a Rochelle resident after an armed robbery Saturday evening in University Plaza. About 5:30 p.m., a Kishwaukee College student was robbed by two suspects at gunpoint inside University Plaza, 900 Crane Drive. The victim's money was stolen...

DeKalb is home to one of the largest live video production companies in the world. Nocturne Productions works with artists such as Paul McCartney, Van Halen, Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Mayer and Guns N' Roses on their national and international...

Citizens of Sycamore were honored during Monday's city council meeting. The council presented plaques to two community members, George Spartz and Jerry Lane, for their years of service with the city. Spartz was honored for 43 years of work as a paid-on-call...

Students who were looking for a late-night bite to eat last Thursday night found the popular eatery Shelley's closed. However, it was up and running Friday afternoon. The temporary closing was due to improper filing of the store's retailer's occupation...

A Byron resident was taken to Kishwaukee Community Hospital after a school bus collided with her vehicle at 2:25 p.m. Friday. A school bus with 10 juvenile passengers struck another vehicle after the driver, Svetlana Smith, 36, of Kirkland, failed to...

The Young Eagles program got DeKalb area kids airborne this weekend. Chapter 241 of the Experimental Aviation Association held an event at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport on Saturday morning, providing free airplane rides to children 8 to 17-years-old....