Boomer wanders the halls at Immaculate Conception School in Morris wearing a red vest that reads “therapy dog in training.” He’s a Great Pyrenees. So even…

It was Juneteenth 2020 and protests filled the streets in cities through northern Illinois. The DeKalb School Board hosted a special meeting to hear from…

Three years ago, there was a school shooting at Dixon High School. It ended before any students could be hurt. Because of that incident, Dixon was asked…

COVID-19 has reignited the conversation around student mental health. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and, crucially, the end of the pandemic-altered…

Kelly Olson knows college campuses can be an overly-complex web of offices and services. She’s the assistant dean of students at Northern Illinois…

Rockford Public Schools and Alignment Rockford are partnering to expand summer programming for students after COVID derailed the school year.The new…

About 9.5 million COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the state of Illinois and a little over 4 million individuals are fully vaccinated,…

Jeanine Szostak wanted to make the best of a scary situation. COVID-19 had just shut down schools and her DeKalb middle and high school kids were stuck at…

As more and more people get vaccinated, it means a return to some “normal” social activities with friends and family. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says…

NIU officials asked students via email to consider returning home a week before the end of the semester. The move comes as the university has seen a…