The Charles City Community School District has announced that Mike Molstead Motors has purchased a free student activity pass for every Charles City student in grades kindergarten through 12th grade ...

All rise … for Judge Stone, the most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds the responsibilities sacred, running her family farm and presiding ...

More than a year after a rural Elma man allegedly opened fire on four law enforcement officers outside his Howard County home, his attempted-murder case remains unresolved. A trial that had been set ...

Bob Krueger, a longtime bicycle-safety advocate who organizes Charles City’s annual Ride of Silence, was injured Monday morning when his bicycle was struck by a pickup about 4½ miles east of Charles ...

Dane Christian Cordes, 26, of Richmond, Missouri, died June 14, 2026, in Butler, Missouri. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 11, at the Ray County Lake near ...

IC students will don a new look when they go back to school this fall. This week students and their families are invited to preview the school’s new uniforms during an event on Wednesday, July 15, ...

Though he was a senior playing an elimination game against a favored opponent, Charles City standout centerfielder Vinny Benning still has a lot of baseball left in him ... win or lose. Benning, who ...

Floyd County Medical Center will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and public open house Saturday morning to celebrate the completion of its new rural health clinic and hospital expansion. The event will ...

For nearly two decades, Cordell Hoeft has tagged along with his father to the Iowa State Fair Governor’s Charity Steer Show, watching exhibitors represent Floyd County while raising money for Ronald ...

The Comets got to host two games during the softball postseason. Many people doubted they would get that far. But here they were at Comet Field last Saturday night as the home team again, this time in ...

A personal aircraft crash in Floyd County Sunday evening, July 5, near Charles City resulted in the pilot being injured and airlifted to Rochester. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Office reported ...

Downtown Charles City was packed with classic cars as the Charles City Rotary Club put on its sixth annual Santa’s Shine & Show car show on Saturday, July 11. “They got some nice ones here,” said ...