Over two dozen fire departments spent several hours battling a wildland fire, fueled by high winds and dry air, that burned ...

A resident confronted a suspect who was trying to break into buildings on his property, prompting the sheriff's office and police officers to conduct a large search near Richmond.

A person, believed to be a worker, was left seriously injured and rushed to the hospital following an accident at a manufacturing facility in Crystal Lake, fire officials said.

Two residents were evaluated by paramedics after they escaped from a fire that started in the basement of an unincorporated Round Lake home early Sunday morning.

Police are investigating after a visitor found human skeletal remains in a wooded area at Baker's Lake Nature Preserve in Barrington, officials said.

Law enforcement agencies in Lake and McHenry counties and across the U.S. are remaining vigilant and actively monitoring for threats amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

A man has been sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to ...

Two residents were left homeless after smoking materials caused a fire on a deck that spread to a house in Wauconda Thursday evening, fire officials said.

A Fox Lake man has been charged with the murder of a Fox Lake woman who was found stabbed to death next to a dumpster at a hotel in Cook County Wednesday, police announced.

The coroner has released the identity of a 50-year-old Waukegan mother and grandmother who was fatally struck by a hit-and-run vehicle in Winthrop Harbor Thursday as her family offers a reward.

Prosecutors say a man told a child, whom he solicited on Snapchat, "you earned yourself some food," and took her to eat after he sexually abused her in the parking lot of a store in Algonquin.

The SWAT response and shelter-in-place order in Lake in the Hills Thursday morning was due to a search warrant on a ...