ALGONA—The Iowa Lakes Community College Board of Trustees met in regular session Tuesday, July 15, at the Algona Campus. The meeting featured an in-depth presentation on the College’s rapidly growing ...

The Camp Algona POW Museum is doing research on farms in the local area that might have hosted German POW’s while the camp was in operation. In addition, if there are any local businesses that used ...

The Algona Community School District set those as its legislative priorities for the 2025-26 legislative session during its July 14 meeting. The information will be forwarded to the Iowa Association ...

A Summary of the life story of the Third Order of St. Francis, a.k.a. “The George Society” ...

Officials say the one-mile stretch of County Road P30 between U.S. Highway 18 and County Road B40 re-opened to local traffic after crews finished resurfacing. The road had been closed at times ...

Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge is soliciting sealed bids (per harvested ton) for hay harvest on three tracts of land to be harvested in August 2025. The tracts are located in Kossuth County as ...

The Kiwanis Club of Algona and the Algona Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for the new 150-foot zipline the Kiwanis installed on the grounds south of the Tietz shelter house on State St.

Betsy Bekcer, ag educator at Algona High School, recently attended a Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education professional development institute at Greeley West High School in Greeley, Colorado ...

Known as accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, these are smaller, secondary homes built on the same lot as the main home. While Algona already had ordinances covering these structures, the new ordinance ...

An Algona resident was recently the target of an online scam that seemed so real that she fell for it at first despite the uneasy feeling she had.

On July 9, the Sierra Club Iowa Chapter released its Wildlife Connectivity Report at a virtual press conference, sounding the alarm on Iowa’s drastic loss of native habitat and calling for immediate ...

The new town grew quickly and touted many businesses: a drug store, an implement store, a locker, hardware store, a hotel, a creamery, a blacksmith shop, and a post office. A bank, the “People’s ...