The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission has approved a new three-year contract for monitoring the water quality in the state's lakes. D-N-R environmental specialist Dan Kendall says the contract ...

A positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been confirmed in Kossuth County, the first confirmed case of 2026 in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the ...

Corn production in Iowa and the nation was on an upward trajectory last year, but industry leaders say there’s now a problem with declining market demand. A new study produced for two Iowa ...

Thursday’s Area Girls Basketball Scores Algona 54 Pocahontas Area 47 --Algona held Pocahontas Area to just 17 points in the 2nd half, and erased a 2-point halftime deficit with a 15-1 run to start the ...

The filmmakers behind “Silent Night in Algona” have a new movie that will be shown at the State Five Theatre this weekend. Shane Hagedorn is the Director, Co-Producer, and one of the stars in “Wild ...

The Iowa House has passed a bill that would prevent Summit Carbon from using eminent domain authority to seize land along its proposed pipeline route. Republican Representative Steven Holt of Denison ...

A bill that would give state and local law enforcement officers who stop a vehicle going over 100 MPH authority to immediately take that driver's license away is working its way through the Iowa ...

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Funeral Service for 82 year old Wendel Weiland, of Algona, will be held Saturday, at 1pm, at Lentz Funeral Home in Algona. Visitation is the same day, at Lentz, from 11am until time of service. Lentz ...

The Iowa Lottery saw an increase in revenue through the first six months of this fiscal year, but its anchor product has been lagging in sales. Chief Revenue Officer Jon Roth says scratch ticket sales ...

The father and grandparents of a missing 5-year-old from Kossuth County have been arrested after law enforcement officials in Wisconsin found the boy and returned him to his mother on Monday.

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