Linda Young

Buoyed by positive response to the first year of its hazardous-waste collection program, the Kane County Board is expected to allocate $75,000 toward extending the program to gather paints, used...

About two dozen protesters picketed the 84th District office of state Rep. Tom Cross on Tuesday, drawing attention to the Oswego Republican's opposition to failed legislation that would have given...

A number of Kane County Board and Forest Preserve committee assignments were filled this week during scheduled monthly meetings for both elected bodies. The board approved County Board Chairman Mike...

Forest Preserve commissioners Tuesday authorized the Kane County Forest Preserve District to begin negotiations to purchase as much as 291 acres in Batavia and Blackberry Townships. The purchase could run...

The Kane County Board Tuesday formally filled the District 5 seat left vacant when Mike McCoy (R-Aurora) was sworn in as board chairman last month. The board unanimously approved McCoy's...

A Kane County jury deliberated into the early hours Saturday before returning a guilty verdict in the murder trial of a 37-year-old Aurora woman, accused of stabbing her son's 18-year-old...

After nearly a decade of dormancy, a county-municipal storm-water management committee might by resurrected by Kane County. The committee would be charged with developing and presenting to the County Board...

Kane County officials are expected to urge the legislature to allow Kane and other counties to regulate zoning of telecommunications facilities in unincorporated areas. "This allows revisions in law so...

Happy New Year. Come one, come all to the annual all-night New Year's Eve Jam and gala sponsored by Indian Boundary YMCA and Downers Grove Township. Youths from 6th grade...

Sheriff's deputies conducted a random sweep last week of 57 establishments that sell tobacco products in search of those that serve minors. Deputies enlisted members of DuPage County Explorers Post...