DeKalb High School

Crowbotics, DeKalb High School’s robotics team, works in their room at Huntley Middle School Tuesday as they prepare for the First Robotics Competition World Championship held in Houston, Texas April 17-20.

Students behind Barb Cast at DeKalb High School had a special opportunity to produce a hype video that was displayed across the Jumbotron during the IHSA Wrestling Championship downstate in February.

DeKalb High School inducted 76 students this month into its chapter of the National Honor Society, according to a news release.

Jaden Teague-Núñez, 16, a sophomore at DeKalb High School, won first place in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition playing the steelpan and will appear as a soloist in a CSO youth concert during the 2024-25 season.

The students who are part of the BarbCast program at DeKalb High School learn through producing live streaming broadcasts and creating promotional materials and video.

DeKalb High School Future Farmers of America held a Barnyard Zoo Wednesday giving local kids a chance to visit the high school and learn about the FFA program and animals in agriculture.

The 24th annual FNBO Challenge returned to the hardwood at Northern Illinois University’s Convocation Center Friday, pitting the DeKalb Barbs against the Sycamore Spartans for a good cause: $41,000 for both district's sports booster clubs.

DeKalb High School will host a concert featuring the St. Olaf Band as part of the band’s 2024 Winter Tour.

DeKalb High School is set to open its fall production, the play “The Laramie Project,” Friday.

The Barbs put a positive spin on a losing season Friday night by beating Metea Valley 25-10 at home in the final game of the year.

People lined the streets near DeKalb High School Wednesday evening to watch this year's homecoming parade.

Congresswoman Lauren Underwood responded to questions about social security, healthcare, women’s reproductive rights and student debt DeKalb, kicking off a month long trek through her congressional district.

DeKalb High School held its Class of 2023 Commencement Saturday at Northern Illinois University's Convocation Center.

To read some of Marlon King Jr.’s diary entries, he was a young father who had his future in mind. "Don’t judge him from his final day on the planet," mom Tara McCarthy said of her son, 19, killed in a DeKalb shooting May 11.

Huntley Middle's Mariya Alexander led off the 4x100, followed by Amaya Kemp, Kara Zimmerman and anchor Eloise Fisher. They finished in 52.74, setting a new seventh-grade state record to with the seventh-grade Class 4A title.