The Cissna Park High School girls basketball team won 36-25 over Tolono Unity on Tuesday. Lauryn Hamrick led Cissna Park in ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley eighth-grade boys basketball team won 36-24 over Paxton-Buckley-Loda on Tuesday. Jace Elder and ...

There has been a lot of local conversation around the ability to safely handle carbon dioxide (CO2). Hopefully, this letter ...

An election season come and gone! That tumultuous time when heroes are made and the losers are written off as villains. Elections are good for selling newspapers! Time for a story with your friendly ...

While Ford County’s tax levy for 2024 calls for an increase of more than 17% in the amount of real estate taxes collected ...

Following is a list of cases filed recently in Ford County Circuit Court: DUI • Hannah N. Lambert, 24, of Herscher, for ...

A veteran member and onetime vice chairman of the Ford County Board, Gibson City’s Chase McCall was elected by his fellow ...

The Ford County Board unanimously approved an ordinance regulating the construction, installation and operation of battery ...

Even though Ford County now has a special-use permitting process in place for carbon dioxide sequestration facilities — ...

Ahead of the Ford County Board’s next regular monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, the board’s sheriff and finance committees will meet this week. The sheriff committee meets at 9 a.m.

Hunters in Illinois harvested 54,661 deer during the first weekend of the firearm deer hunting season from Nov. 22-24. Comparatively, hunters took 53,348 and 52,354 deer during the first firearm ...

The Paxton Police Department released the following list of recent activity: n Andrew B. Bruns, 30, of Paxton, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and ticketed for disobeying a ...