The barn was built sometime in the late 1940s. According to an article from Iowa Farm and Home Register in February 1949, it operated under farmer O.K. Flaugh as a 20-cow dairy barn. It was touted as ...

Fireworks light up the Iowa Speedway during the public night on Aug. 2 of the Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI) convention. The last public night of Thunderstruck Over Iowa Speedway will be ...

Several street parking spots near the 300 blocks of West Fourth Street North will be restricted to three hours during business hours to better accommodate customers and patrons near the Legacy ...

Newton residents living near a piece of farmland on the northeast side of town oppose its rezoning from agriculture to light industrial. (Christopher Braunschweig) Oftentimes the contentious ...

A 41-year-old Des Moines area man is dead after his vehicle collided head on with another vehicle just before noon on July 24 along Jasper County Highway S-74 South, the sheriff’s office said in ...

Emma Harden, age 2, completed the Newton Public Library 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program. Emma’s older brother also ...

Voters fill out their ballots during Election Day on Nov. 5 inside a precinct at the American Legion Post 111 in Newton. The Jasper County Auditor's Office reported a 75 percent voter turnout this ...

Newton sophomore Qhjuan Coley (22) puts up a shot in the lane against Carlisle on Tuesday. The Cardinals faced the Wildcats in an Achieve Challenge scrimmage and lost 60-37. (Troy Hyde/Newton News ...

Randy Van Roekel, the former news director of KCOB and the voice of the Newton Cardinals, will be returning to the air on KNIA/KRLS, and with that he will be offering his signature play-by-play ...

Newton residents living near a piece of farmland on the northeast side of town oppose its rezoning from agriculture to light industrial. (Christopher Braunschweig) Farmland located near already ...

1. Introduce/reintroduce yourself to voters and explain why you are running. Local elected officials are public servants and need to base decisions on the city’s overall best interests.

The military is concerned about a growing recruitment crisis. Survey after survey reveals young people just aren’t inspired by military service. Ironically, decades of sky-high military spending — and ...