The Chard and Ilminster News is a local newspaper in Somerset, England.

The newspaper was established in Chard, Somerset, about 1874, as a weekly newspaper published on Saturdays, priced at one penny,^{[2] [3]} and in 1882 was identified as Liberal-supporting, with a circulation of one thousand copies. It was then in competition with the longer-established Nowlen's Weekly Chronicle, Chard, Ilminster, and Axminster Gazette, which was Conservative and was selling 850 copies at a higher price.^[4]

The newspaper continues to be published weekly in Chard and covers the local news, events, jobs, births, deaths and marriages of Chard, Ilminster, Crewkerne, and the villages of South Somerset.^[5]