DeKALB | Until Oct. 4, DeKalb residents have listened as Krusinski Construction Company presented plans for a new business park. Residents near the Gurler Road site finally had their opportunity to be heard. Multiple residents expressed concerns regarding...

DeKALB | The Senate is currently reviewing a new law that would give teachers the authority to conduct searches. The House passed the bill last week that would expand the right to search students to now include teachers instead of just administrators....

DeKALB | Judy Baar Topinka, Republican candidate for governor, has proposed a two-year tax freeze on the education portion of property taxes. The tax freeze is part of Topinka's four-year budget recovery plan for Illinois. Of the property taxes residents...

DeKALB | The 14th congressional district race is evolving each day as Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert responds to criticism based on his reaction to Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate computer messages to teenage male pages. In light of the Foley scandal,...

DeKalb Mayor Frank Van Buer has declared October "Glidden Campus Florist Month." The Glidden Campus Florist, 917 W. Lincoln Highway, the largest floral retailer in DeKalb County, celebrates its 70th anniversary this weekend. Festivities run today through...

SYCAMORE | Within the next year, bikers and walkers will be able to see Sycamore on a newly-constructed bike path. Beginning in 2007, the city will start constructing a public bike path within the right-of-way along the east side of Peace Road. The path...

SYCAMORE |Authorities are continuing an investigation regarding an NIU student recently arrested for allegedly running a methamphetamine lab out of a storage unit in Sycamore. Ryan P. McMillan, 24, of Sycamore, may face more charges since his arrest Saturday...

Gas prices have fallen by almost a dollar per gallon in the past month and announced major additions to the U.S. natural gas and crude oil reserves may send the price down even further, experts say. On Sept. 26, the Energy Information Administration reported...

ABC News released some disturbing news Friday that could damage House Speaker Dennis Hastert's standing in the House of Representatives. One of its members, Florida Republican Mark Foley, 52, sent some questionable e-mails and sexually explicit instant...

DeKALB | The recent liquor legislation and the smoking ban concerned citizens about overregulation. The DeKalb City Council is not considering a ban on trans-fat like the proposed ban in New York, said 2nd Ward Alderman Kris Povlsen. "It's the individual...

DeKALB | Despite recent school shootings across the continent, local high schools say they feel secure. On Monday, three girls — all under the age of 13 — were killed after a truck driver stormed into a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday and opened...

DeKALB | The Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico originally used salvia divinorum for its psychoactive properties. Today it is being used as a recreational drug. Salvia is a hallucinogen that gives its user perceptions of bright lights, vivid colors and shapes,...