The Ford County Board’s finance committee is expected to discuss a proposed decommissioning agreement for the county’s first ...

A proposed ordinance regulating the siting of carbon dioxide sequestration facilities in Ford County will be considered this ...

Following are Halloween trickor treating hours for area communities: Buckley — 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. (Also, there may ...

ABOVE: Miriam Pietkiewicz sits on a memorial bench at Coady Park in Paxton that is dedicated in memory of her late father, ...

After learning she had terminal Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in July 2019, Heidi Punke Brown “wallowed in self-pity” at ...

For more than 30 years, I worked among fellow journalists who were passionate watchdogs reporting on the actions of people in ...

The Paxton Park Board approved payment for a memorial bench to be made in honor of former board commissioner Jake Pietkiewicz ...

The Ford County Sheriff’s Office issued 40 traffic citations in September, including 23 for speeding, three for driving on a suspended or revoked driver’s license and two each for operating an ...

The St. John’s eighth-grade girls basketball team lost 40-25 to Iroquois West on Tuesday. Kinley Beyers had 12 points, three ...

It seems like about every time I am out in the public, no matter what the occasion, once someone realizes I own the local paper they seem anxious to tell me something. And in more cases than not, it ...

The Fisher/Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley soccer team won 2-0 over Oakwood on Tuesday. David Hull scored a goal in the 37th minute ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity volleyball team earned its first Illini Prairie Conference win of the 2024 season with a ...