Former chair of Senate Education Committee wants to prioritize property taxes and fine tuning education-related matters ...

When Rob Luther announced publicly on social media that he was stepping down as Baxter head football coach, many thought the ...

COLFAX — A tough shooting night and 19 turnovers plagued the Colfax-Mingo boys basketball team against Iowa Valley on Friday ...

OSKALOOSA — A six-run inning propelled the Newton softball team to a win over Class 1A No. 2 Sigourney on Saturday. The victory helped the Cardinals salvage a two-game split at the Oskaloosa ...

Class 3A No. 3 Kent Montgomery of Newton won all four of his matches at the Cardinal Classic on Saturday. He won twice by fall and twice by technical fall to finish first at 106 pounds. (Troy Hyde ...

Photographs provided by Danielle Rogers show the sheer size of some of the hailstones from the May 7 storm in Newton and Jasper County. National Weather Service said many of the hailstones were ...

Gary and Mary Adams, of rural Colfax, walk along the fence line of their property, which will be moved to make way for the construction of a Level B road that was left unmaintained for several ...

1. Introduce/Reintroduce yourself to voters and explain why you are running. My husband Cory and I have five kids in three different buildings here in Newton. Avery is a junior at NHS, Hudson is ...

PCM sophomore Tori Lindsay grabs a pop fly at shortstop during a home game earlier this season. The state-ranked Mustangs cruised past three conference foes last week and are now 9-1 on the season.

This rendering depicts a two-bedroom apartment in the planned 70-unit, market-rate apartment community in historic Maytag Building 16. The unit features an open floor plan concept with exposed ...

Alyssa Wilson, administrator of Jasper County Veterans Affairs, speaks to visitors of the Jasper County Veterans Affairs Commission meeting on May 8 inside the conference room of the county ...

Newton junior Alex Riney catches a pass during a home game earlier this season. The Cardinals had a week full of no practice and no competition because a pair of winter storms canceled school ...