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

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 ...

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 ...