The McHenry County Department of Health hit a snag in their plans to renovate and add onto their building in Crystal Lake as planning commissioners deny the request due to concrete material choices.

A pair of siblings are charges with murder in the 2023 shooting of a 17-year-old boy in Round Lake, police announced. One of the siblings is 17 but charged as an adult.

A Chicago man has been sentenced to nine years in prison in a plea deal after he was charged with possessing multiple drugs at a Crystal Lake motel last year.

A Prairie Grove man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in two plea deals after he was charged with possessing over 11 pounds of marijuana and images of children being sexually abused.

A car's Apple Crash Detection Alert notified the Marengo Police and Marengo Fire & Rescue Districts that a car collided with a garage Tuesday afternoon

A fire broke out in and damaged a home near McHenry Tuesday night.

A teenager was uninjured after his car caught fire Monday afternoon in Cary, but the blaze shut Route 14 down for about two hours.

State seizes an estimated $1 million in cash and property in 2022 drug bust and money laundering case

Almost 60 cases of whooping cough were reported in McHenry County in 2024.

Jevonne Williams and her daughter Riley Golz, both originally from McHenry, lost their homes and their possessions in the Altadena, California, fires, on Wednesday. Williams previously owned a McHenry salon.

Marengo is along the proposed Rockford line. Officials want a stop.

A teenager and a child were taken to hospitals after a crash near Harvard involving two cars, one of which rolled over.

A 70-year-old Huntley woman died following a two-vehicle crash in Carpentersville Wednesday afternoon.

Alan Hanke of Crystal Lake, who pleaded guilty to defrauding investors of millions of dollars, was allowed to have his sentencing postponed while he undergoes surgery, court records show.

A Wisconsin man is sentenced to eight years in prison in a plea deal after being charged with breaking into eight cars in one day last year in Marengo.