Voters in Tuesday’s consolidated election appear to have shot down a referendum question in Kane County that would have increased the sales tax by 0.75% to pay for public safety expenses in the ...

Highland Ave., was one of several isolated places where heavy damage was reported, said Scott Buziecki, director of the Kane County Office of Emergency Management. A barn was destroyed in a rural ...

The Kane County Office of Emergency Management is seeking the public’s help in assessing storm damage to determine if the county qualifies for federal disaster assistance, county officials said.

Heavy rain has caused flooding of small streams, creeks and rivers, particularly in the south Willamette Valley, an OEM news release ... and was pulled into Kane Creek, according to the Jackson ...

In the wake of the storms, a rash of power outages was reported in Northwest Indiana — Porter County in particular ... Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications also issued ...