NEW YORK (AP) — Tick season seems to be off to a fast start, with an unusually high number of bites already reported across the country. Some U.S. doctors are worried about the potential for a bad ...

BUCKLEY — Heather’s Kitchen at 310 S. Railroad Ave. in Buckley is offering lunches through the Peace Meal program starting at 10 a.m. each weekday. Following are the menus for upcoming weeks, with all ...

LODA — The Loda Township Library’s book club meets at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, to discuss “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. People interested in joining the book club are asked to contact the ...

Elected officials from the village of Buckley and Artesia Township help unload unwanted items for disposal from residents’ vehicles last weekend during Buckley’s annual spring townwide cleanup days.

WATSEKA — The Iroquois County Emergency Management Agency fully transitioned from the Hyper- Reach mass-notification system to the Regroup mass-notification system on Friday, May 1, meaning ...

LUDLOW — The driver of a vehicle that crashed on Interstate 57 at the Ford-Champaign county line on Tuesday, April 28, was cited for numerous traffic offenses, including driving under the influence of ...

RANKIN — Rankin Township High School graduate Jim Fitzhenry fondly remembers growing up in the small Vermilion County village. His class of 1968 had a whopping 19 students, and he said his sister’s ...

Derek Stark, assistant athletic director for major gifts at the University of Illinois, speaks to members of the Gibson City Lions Club during the club’s weekly meeting on Tuesday, April 28. Stark ...

PONTIAC — A former Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School teacher pleaded guilty to felony charges of grooming and indecent solicitation of a child Wednesday and was allowed to be released from custody ahead ...

The Philo Country Opry performs traditional country music — including on the fiddle, steel guitar, banjo and piano — as part of Paxton Main Street’s First Fridays concert series on Friday, May 1, at ...

My December 2025 farm retirement auction was successful; the average of all sales slightly exceeded my expectations. With any auction, some items bring more and others less than one personally values ...

GIBSON CITY — As executive director of the Greater Gibson Area Economic Alliance, Matt Burns’ philosophy for improving the economy of Gibson City and the surrounding area is to “start as close to home ...