Candidates can begin circulating nominating petitions for the March 17 primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 5, and must file ...

Identical open-records requests made three months apart have resulted in two curiously different responses from the ...

The CRIS Rural Mass Transit District has expanded its public transportation services into Ford County and is working to get ...

The Illinois Farm Bureau has long championed new and diverse market opportunities while fighting to eliminate trade barriers ...

The hiring of Caleb Aldridge as the head coach of the Fisher/Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School soccer team was announced ...

I will tell you, I think they’re very dishonest people. I think they’re crooked as hell. And maybe they have to pay a price ...

Button Township Highway Commissioner Ron Hilligoss told Ford County Board members on Monday, July 14, that he can find only six instances of farmers’ crops intruding upon the roadside right-of-way in ...

The ACT Theatre Company will perform two shows — “Space Pirates!” and “Seussical (The Musical)” — on Friday, July 25, and Saturday, July 26, in the pavilion at Gibson City’s North Park. “Space Pirates ...

With her husband, Harold, Lois Bodeen came to Paxton from Casey, where there was a thrift shop. Lois and Harold, a Methodist minister, went to the local ministerial association and the Paxton Thrift ...

Members of the public unable to attend the Ford County Board’s regular monthly meetings in Paxton will soon be able to listen in and watch the meetings as they happen — or anytime later — using their ...

The Paxton-Buckley Loda school district is searching for its next superintendent and is looking to the community for input. The school board is asking for community members to complete an online ...

Brian Walker, left, and Shane Kleinert, both members of the Lake Iroquois Association’s bass club, cook ribeye steaks on a grill as they help staff a Paxton Kirby Foods cookout fundraiser on Saturday, ...