Northern Illinois University on Friday renamed the New Residence Hall complex in honor of Fanny Ruth Patterson, the university's first African American graduate.

Illinois volleyball announced its 2025 non-conference schedule on Wednesday. The Illini will play nine games before jumping ...

DEKALB (WREX) — A Northern Illinois University student died in a residence hall building on Friday, according to university officials. The Northern Star, the student newspaper on campus, says ...

For more than 70 years, the outdoor education camp affiliated with Northern Illinois University in Oregon has hosted thousands of elementary and middle school students each year for field trips.

Former Northern Illinois quarterback Jordan Lynch will soon become the second Husky football player to reach the Mid-American Conference Hall of Fame. The conference announced the 2024 Hall of ...

Richard Rank, 24, a history major at NIU, studies inside Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University on Feb. 9, 2023. When faculty know the students well — even the quiet ones — they can notice ...

NIU has agreed to leave the MAC to join the Mountain West in football only and the NIU Board of Trustees will discuss the ...

It's been 15 years since a lone gunman stepped into a Northern Illinois University lecture hall and fatally shot five students, wounded dozens of others and left a mark some say won't ever go away ...

Two west-central Illinois students are among those named to the fall semester dean's list for academic achievement at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. To earn dean's list honors, students ...

In his first interview since surviving the 2008 mass shooting incident at Northern Illinois University on Valentine’s Day, Professor Joseph Peterson tells his story of survival.

The 15th anniversary of the Valentine's Day mass shooting at Northern Illinois University was observed in DeKalb Tuesday, under the shadow of Monday night's tragedy at MSU.

BUFFALO, NY. (WKBW) — The University at Buffalo football team, under first-year head coach Pete Lembo, shocked 23rd-ranked Northern Illinois in DeKalb with a 23-20 win in overtime.