Firefighters responded to a 2,000-acre forest fire near the Greenwood Lake Turnpike along state lines in Orange County when a ...

Seven new fires were reported throughout the state and a smoke cloud threw a haze across the Helderbergs the night before.

A fire in Pompton Lakes was mostly contained by Sunday morning, but smoke remains. The fire started Saturday morning and had grown to 175 acres by Saturday ...

The Chengwatana State Forest north of the Twin Cities reopened Friday, after rain and snow helped officials extinguish a fire that had been burning there for about two weeks.

Firefighters have efficiently secured the west and southwestern flanks of the fire, where the priority has been to protect ...

On Monday, a brush and forest fire broke out in Cook Township due to, what neighbors say, was someone burning leaves.

According to the Lake Forest Fire Department, at around 2:44 p.m., personnel responded to the boat launch at 601 Forest Park Rd. regarding a missing boater. A man sailing a 15-foot catamaran-style ...

Lake Forest Fire Department officers arrived at the beach at 2:44 Sunday afternoon following a report of a missing boater sailing a 15-foot catamaran-style sailboat in Lake Michigan Sunday.

(WLS) -- A boater went missing Sunday in Lake Michigan near the north suburbs. The Lake Forest Fire Department responded around 2:44 p.m. to the Lake Forest Boat Launch for a call of a missing ...

Authorities are searching for a masked bandit who shot at a bank teller in Lake Forest before making off with $31,000. The man entered a Chase Bank branch around noon Thursday, reached over the ...

Nov. 3—Belinda "Bindy" Bass was driving to Bonito Lake this past Tuesday when she pulled to the side of the road to speak on her cell phone with the Journal. Bass is parks and recreation director for ...

A Round Lake woman was killed Tuesday night in a townhouse fire, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office. She was identified Wednesday as Karli Corey, 32. The coroner’s office said an ...