Cassie Buchman

Bathroom remodeling, new lighting and other interior work at Three Oaks Elementary School were all part of the $37 million budget unanimously approved by the Cary School District school board this week.

Five more McHenry County schools reported COVID-19 outbreaks on Friday, bringing the total to 12.

“People are shifting types of events they’re doing,” one McHenry County nonprofit leader said. “It’s exciting and fun to see what new innovative ideas they have to bring a community together again.”

25-year-old Woodstock woman died after a four-vehicle crash Wednesday outside Marengo, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office says

The number of new COVID-19 cases in McHenry County remains high even as the positivity rate fell to 4.4%, the McHenry County Department of Health reported Wednesday.

McHenry County Sheriff’s Office asks drivers to avoid Route 23 near River Road

A Cary man whose car struck a Prairie Grove School District 46 bus Wednesday morning outside Crystal Lake has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said.

Crystal Lake Strikers Drumline was one of 16 northern Illinois organizations awarded a grant through ComEd’s annual Powering the Arts program.

Clock Tower Cupcakes currently only takes orders online.

Some McHenry County schools saw vaccination rates rise since the mandate to get shots or face weekly tests was put into effect last month by Gov. JB Pritzker, while others are still gathering data and have found teaching staff are more likely to already be inoculated than workers outside classroom settings.

Cary School District 26′s school board has rescheduled a recent meeting after a group of parents acted “disruptive and uncivil,” and refused to wear masks as required, resulting in a call to police.

Speakers share memories of 9/11, what the day means to them on the 20th anniversary of the attacks

A stretch of Randall from Harnish Drive in Algonquin north to Polaris Drive in Lake in the Hills has reopened.

Woodstock School District 200 identified its first COVID-19 outbreak of the school year, according to a letter sent out by Superintendent Mike Moan on Friday.

Clock Tower Cupcakes currently only takes orders online, but they'll be at Algonquin’s Art on the Fox from 10 a.m. to 5 pm. on Saturday and Sunday.