After winning a second consecutive Iowa High School Hockey Alliance championship last season, the Boji Mammoths entered the 2023-24 season needing to rebuild. The departure of a large senior class — ...

With the two regular gun seasons now in the books, Iowa’s deer hunting shifts to a more solitary endeavor with the opening of the late muzzleloader season and the reopening of the archery season.

Spirit Lake’s boys and girls track teams put together several incredible performances at the 2024 Iowa High School State Track & Field Championships held Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18 at Drake Stadium ...

After a dominating performance against Prairie City Monroe in the Class 2A semifinal held Saturday, Nov. 16 at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Spirit Lake’s football team advanced to face West Lyon in ...

Sometimes I ask myself, and I’m sure other people who enjoy fishing ask themselves, “Why do we go fishing”? I’ve found in recent years that my reasons for going fishing have changed. In conversations ...

Okoboji’s boys and girls track teams put on a show at the 2024 Iowa High School State Track & Field Championships held Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18 at Drake Stadium in Des Moines.

For the past three decades, I’ve been exploring planet Earth and especially the polar regions of the globe. My travels occurred during a time of dramatic climate change. I’ve worked with, interviewed ...

Okoboji/HMS sophomore Dulce Ortega etched her name in the history books after earning the first-ever individual conference wrestling title in the program’s history. Ortega won the 110-pound crown at ...

Red ribbon replaced orange pylons at the end of a major — and majorly cumbersome — Iowa Great Lakes highway project in 2024. Construction phases in March and September at long last brought the $19.6 ...

At first glance, Jeff Wilkerson’s memoir of science and nature, 23 Woodcock in 22 Years, seems a bit of an anomaly. The subtitle Reflections on Hunting, the Night Sky, and Our Place in the Universe ...

The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors continued to face a two-front challenge in 2024 as issues surrounding the Summit carbon pipeline and the Red Rock wind turbine project continued to pepper ...

Voters in two Dickinson County school districts backed a total of $87.6 million in school construction projects in the last two election cycles. Dignitaries broke ground on a Harris-Lake Park ...