Linh Nguyen, a Northern Illinois University educator and former League of Women Voters president, has likely secured her name on the ballot for April’s DeKalb mayoral race after Tuesday’s primary election.

Public funeral and visitation services have been arranged for the late Roger Scott, who spent more than half a century serving in the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. Visitation and a funeral will take place March 6 and 7 in DeKalb.

The second annual Huskie Trek Talks: Ideas in Motion returns March 1 to Northern Illinois University to showcase research, innovation and engagement happening across campus.

The Kaneland Board of Education has directed its legal counsel to develop a complaint challenging the Sugar Grove I-88 and IL-47 redevelopment project area TIF district.

The DeKalb Park District has netted $13,120 in state grant money to help with local forestry initiatives including tree mapping and developing an urban management plan.

More than 80 people employed at Kindred Hospital in Sycamore are poised to lose their jobs as Scion Health officials prepare to shutter the hospital this spring.

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The Dixon and Kaneland girls basketball teams met Tuesday in a Class 3A sectional semifinal at Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford.

Citing ongoing financial challenges, the management at WLBK FM 98.9/AM 1360 radio station in DeKalb has pulled the plug on its morning show staff, the station announced in a social media post Tuesday.

Roger Scott, longtime DeKalb County sheriff who retired in 2021 after more than three decades at the helm, died Sunday. The devoted family man "lived a life selflessly serving others," Sheriff Andy Sullivan said Monday.