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After a one-year hiatus like all of the other county fairs across the state, the Vermilion County Fair is returning this year. The 2021 edition will take place from June 23 through June 27 at the rura...

Illinois will officially be back to full capacity at all events starting on Friday, but local residents are being encouraged to still use caution when it comes to COVID-19. Melissa Rome, the Emergency...

Danville police are searching for the driver of a vehicle who hit another vehicle overnight and then fired several shots while fleeing the scene. A woman from Fairmount told police that she was drivin...

Some changes could be in store for wind-energy projects in Vermilion County, but the county board chairman says portions of the county's ordinance could be superseded by state action. Larry Baughn tol...

Visitors to this year's Balloons Over Vermilion will notice a new name and interior at the Vermilion Regional Airport's former terminal. Airport Manager Alex Gale tells VermilionCountyFirst.com that t...

Construction on the Carle at the Riverfront project will soon be underway. Workers will break ground on the $70 million medical campus next Thursday, June 17 at 10 a.m. at the corner of Harrison and R...

If it's been awhile since you visited Danville's Ellsworth Park, you may be surprised by some major improvements there. No longer is there a softball field when you first enter the park from the west....

A Danville woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting her brother last fall at Vermilion Garden Apartments. 30-year-old Toi Lewis entered into a guilty plea on Tuesday on a Class X...

Daniel Bass often struggled with mental health as a child, and he says it continues to be a problem for him from time to time. Yet despite those struggles, Bass has managed to achieve quite a bit of s...

Any school students in Vermilion County who received a Pfizer vaccine through the Vermilion County Health Department a month ago have the opportunity this week to receive their second dose. Health Dep...