In a pool of 269 competitors trying for state, West Branch Middle School finished third this weekend and advanced to the state Lego League championship round. Calling themselves the 71704 Team of Doom ...

More people want library cards. Ebook use nears that of audiobooks. Summer Reading Program attendance skyrocketed. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click ...

Junior High Builders turned 3,000 doughnuts into three water pumps during A Christmas Past. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to access the ...

On behalf of the Chauncey Butler Post 514 American Legion, we would like to express our sympathy to the family of Norman Bickford on the passing of Norm from this world. Full text is available only to ...

West Branch City Administrator Adam Kofoed earned an honorable mention last week for an article he wrote after being diagnosed with autism and the acceptance he found from the City Council and staff.

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The Nordex Group is pleased to announce it has been awarded significant contracts by Alliant Energy, following a rigorous and competitive request for proposals process, according to a press release.

“I’ve never built anything this big,” Branden Chiles said Friday night while looking over his model train display at Christmas Past. Chiles’ train exhibit stepped in after the Dean Gibson family’s ...

After a contentious meeting two weeks earlier, the West Branch City Council and owners of The Meadows subdivision reached an agreement on the city taking over 9.33 acres of land. The Dec. 1 meeting ...

Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado are celebrating as she heads to Oslo to accept her Nobel Peace Prize, the one Trump wanted so badly. Full text is available only to ...

Winter Storm Bellamy dropped about eight inches of snow on the city over the weekend, but emergency officials reported no injuries and only two crashes. Light snow began falling Friday night, then ...

This week in Washington, D.C., U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks made some remarkable claims. “The ACA subsidies that came from the ‘Unaffordable Care Act’, they are not expiring, they were not cut,” ...