You can picture it: Christmas morning. Your kids or significant other are gathered by the tree. You hand them one last box. They open it to find a new puppy or kitten. They cry happy tears. It’s a...

On October 24, a plane touched down at Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, then took off again 30 minutes later. What happened in that half hour was nothing short of lifesaving. Staff members...

The recent first snowfall has many of us locating sweaters, boots, and ice scrapers for the car. As you’re preparing for the colder weather ahead, don’t forget your pets! They’re even more impacted...

It’s 8am at Anderson Humane’s South Elgin shelter and you can hear the excited barking from the parking lot. That’s because it’s time for breakfast. In the back dog room, known as the Doggy Den,...

“He came into our house like he lived here,” Gloria said of Storm, the 7-year-old Catahoula leopard dog mix she and her family started fostering for Anderson Humane in early 2022. In fact, when her...

They weren’t fishing for turtles, but that’s exactly what one of Stefan’s group caught on a recent fishing trip in South Elgin’s Blackhawk Park. A map turtle, to be precise, so named for the...