Boone News

A new convenience store opened in Roachdale this weekend. Residents in this small town now have easy access to Casey's well-known homemade pizza and delicious doughnuts.

State Rep. Wayne Ford is facing questions about how money was handled by his campaign and by Urban Dreams, the nonprofit organization he heads.

The congregation of Lighthouse Community Church finally has a permanent home. Church members first met in the Carlisle High School gymnasium, and later in Southridge Mall after starting public worship in April 2000.

Ed Failor, Jr., who heads the conservative group Iowans for Tax Relief, made headlines during this year's legislative session when he compared Democratic legislative leaders to 'jack-booted Nazis' after an unruly crowd of conservatives was ejected from the Iowa House during a public hearing on proposed changes to the state income tax code.

Visitors at Oakland Cemetery received a personal welcome from the historic cemetery's designer, Egbert Bagg, Saturday afternoon.

Sunday my wife and I trimmed our hedge in front of our house. We trimmed the bushes that were larger and growing better to match the others that weren't doing as well.

Carl Ruffalo was a marked man. Every where he went at last weekend's retriever trials near Weaver, people would stop him, wave, shake his hand.

A Boone woman was killed and a man was injured Friday night when a car they were riding in slid into a ditch and rolled several times, state troopers said Saturday.

The signs displayed outside of the Des Moines Area Community College gymnasium said it all Saturday, May 16, as friends, loved ones and supporters waited for their soldiers to arrive.

Authorities in northwest Iowa have arrested a man wanted on a federal arrest warrant for probation violation.

Boone, Ia. - Friends and loved ones of the Iowa National Guard's 248th Aviation Support Battalion can turn off their porch lights.

Three community homecoming ceremonies will be held on Saturday for a Boone-based Iowa Army National Guard unit.

Iowa Central Community College's commencement is at 10 a.m. today at Hodges Fieldhouse on the Iowa Central campus.

It was a walk down memory lane for Wanda Clarke as she recalled the story about how her family got Cocoa, the family dog, in 1959.

The final assembly line of this Plymouth plant in Detroit, seen on Aug. 13, 1954, is so vast that a visitor can walk about a half a mile without stepping outdoors.

Job description: President of a small construction company doing work throughout central Iowa.

The Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau officials say that for every 100 people that visit Greater Des Moines, $25,000 is poured into the local economy.

We just got a postcard from Easter Bunny. He's been hopping down the bunny trail visiting family members and friends the past few months.

Wright County Engineer Dan Waid, along with Assistant Engineer Adam Clemons, presented the five-year Secondary Roads plan to the Board of Supervisors on Monday.

The Board of Education for the Fort Dodge Community School District met for a special session Monday evening to discuss bids for the Senior High School kitchen and music area renovation project as well as other related building projects.