The Paxton City Council on Tuesday, June 10, approved the language for a nonbinding referendum that will appear on the next primary election ballot — on March 17, 2026 — asking Paxton voters if they ...

The president of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district’s teachers’ union told the school board on Wednesday, June 11, that ...

For several years, a gentle soul roamed the streets of Gibson City, easily identified by his signature cowboy hat and flowing ...

On a Friday in late May, while their senior classmates were walking the stage and receiving their diplomas at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, Brady Young and Isaiah Busby were some 20 miles away in ...

Gibson Area Music Foundation member Cindy Farris-Morano presents a $3,000 check to Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School band ...

Four contestants will vie for the title of Miss Ford County Fair Queen during the fair’s annual queen pageant ...

Very late on the night of Saturday, May 31, Illinois House Democrats rammed through Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s record-setting ...

Readers of this column know that for the past nine years or so, if Donald Trump said it, I was for it. It’s hard to argue ...

A lawsuit filed in Ford County Circuit Court alleges that a Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district teacher and former coach ...

A former Gibson City-Melvin Sibley coach and teacher was arrested Thursday in Georgia on a warrant charging him in Ford ...

I finally got to see the make-out room 40 years later, but I still didn’t get to make out. I’m not sure I remember how, ...

Scenes for the movie “Chili Finger” were filmed in downtown Paxton on Friday. Donna Pepper, executive director of Paxton Main Street, coordinated some of the local preparations for the film shoot.