Wayne Baker

The city plans to file an appeal with the Illinois Pollution Control Board seeking to block the expansion of Settler's Hill Landfill. The appeal will argue that Geneva and Kane...

The City Council has agreed to meet with three architectural firms this month with the idea of hiring one to design an expansion of the police station. Police officials are...

The city councils of Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles have voted to create the Tri-City Solid Waste Management Agency as a means to lower residents' weekly garbage bills and improve...

The City Council has approved a 13-home subdivision on Batavia's west side, but not before authorizing traffic barriers to prevent motorists from cutting through an existing neighborhood. Mayor Jeff Schielke...

City crews will begin picking up tree branches Monday that fell during the ice storm. Street Department Supt. John Dillon said the cleanup has been hampered by frozen debris stuck...

If the Kane County state's attorney prosecutes misdemeanor and traffic cases for the Tri-Cities, it will cost twice as much as last year but still not as much as a...

The northern approach to downtown would be transformed from a "sea of asphalt" to an attractively landscaped pedestrian center under a capital improvement plan submitted to the City Council. The...

The City Council's Downtown Committee has agreed to recommend hiring an East Coast consultant to study downtown road improvements and to help get federal funds to pay for the work....

The Kane County Forest Preserve Commission is asking the state attorney general's office for clarification on state laws before it agrees to swap property with the Park District. In the...

Despite the City Council's earlier rejection of the proposal, the Friends of Downtown St. Charles will pay for an East Coast transportation consultant to come to the Fox Valley to...