The Cissna Park High School boys basketball team won 48-44 over St. Anne in its first game of the Watseka Holiday Tournament on Thursday. Dierks Neukomm led Cissna Park (2-5) with 26 points while Seth ...

Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School graduate Kade Hill, a former agriculture teacher and Illinois FFA president who works in ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board on Wednesday, Dec. 10, approved adding new shotput and discus rings — at a cost of ...

During the Paxton City Council’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 9, Mayor Bill Ingold expressed condolences to City Attorney ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda eighth-grade girls basketball team lost 34-10 to Manteno in the IESA Class 3A Prairie Central Sectional game on Wednesday. With the loss, PBL ended its season with a record of ...

The Paxton City Council on Tuesday, Dec. 9, approved an ordinance adopting Ford County’s multi-jurisdictional natural hazards ...

The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity girls basketball team won the Calvary Turkey Shootout championship on Tuesday. The Panthers ...

The Cissna Park High School boys basketball team lost 63-45 to Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin on Tuesday. Dierks Neukomm ...

Holding an edition of the Ford County Chronicle, Rachel Morris of Paxton poses with James Shields while she was visiting the ...

Nearly 40 babies have been sickened in an infant botulism outbreak tied to contaminated formula, federal health officials say. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday reported 39 cases of ...

The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley/Fisher High School wrestling team won 47-27 over Stanford Olympia on Tuesday. Ian Rotramel ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds. The company shut down the last blast furnace there in 2023, and ...