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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Seventh-grade pupils will try to turn fire into fresh water this weekend. The West Branch Kiwanis Club’s Junior High Builders Club will take over the popular fresh doughnut stand during Christmas Past ...

Three men received serious injuries after a head-on crash Monday night about one mile east of West Branch. The crash took place around 6 p.m. on Herbert Hoover Highway/290th Street, between Charles ...

Jeff Kaufmann’s Nov. 13th guest opinion grossly misrepresented the September 2025 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report. If you were to believe Kaufmann’s misreading of the CSIS ...