Harlan News

It's an answered prayer more than 60 years in the making. A war veteran from Mercer Island has reconnected with a precious heirloom thanks to a boy from a small town in Iowa.

THE ANNUAL EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY WASMER POST 241 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. THE LEGION PROVIDES COLOR GUARDS AND 21-GUN SALUTES FOR EVENTS SUCH AS THE DEDICATION OF A NEW GRAVE MARKER FOR PRIVATE DALE KUNKEL WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II.

By 2011, a recreational trail will link Fort Dodge with John F. Kennedy Memorial Park.

Sutherland residents can easily find the Hometown Variety and Main Market in downtown with their sign selling what's on the inside.

Please go here to order Gazette photos. Nancy Humbles, who lives on the northwest side of Cedar Rapids listens to the panelists answer questions about the current violence and police presence in particular areas of Cedar Rapids during a forum titled "Community Connections: Taking Ownership For Where We Live" last night at St Paul's United Methodist ...

A plan to connect Fort Dodge with John F. Kennedy Memorial Park via recreational trail was endorsed Tuesday by the Webster County Board of Supervisors.

A local family has defied the odds. All three of their kids were born on the same day, in three different years, and none of it was planned.

Raising dairy cattle is a 365-day-a-year, labor-intensive business even in the best of times, says dairy farmer Stuart Lyon.

Jenny Nowatzke HARLAN - Who knew rocks could make English class so interesting? For weeks, ninth graders at Harlan Community High School have been collecting rocks from across the country.

There is what appears to be a pile of ordinary rocks in a plastic container in a classroom at Harlan High School.

Heartland Tech Group, a solution provider consortium with more than 200 members across North America, has expanded into the United Kingdom and plans on further international growth, said Arlin Sorensen, founder ...

Dear readers, my name is Michael R. I am a fifth- grade student at West Ridge Elementary School in Harlan, Iowa.

Louis Stroschein Jr. knew when he walked into a federal courtroom Wednesday that he would spend at least 10 years in prison because he solicited sex with a 15-year-old girl over the Internet.

Chalk. A jewel thief. A rib fest. Le Mars is in for a bit of the unusual in the year ahead.

Winds whipping to about 60 mph toppled three semi trucks in Pottawattamie County late Monday afternoon, authorities said.

Roger Claypool has been named President and CEO for First National Bank with locations throughout Sioux City, Le Mars, and Sioux Center.

ROGER CLAYPOOL STARTED HIS WORK AT FIRST NATIONAL JANUARY 19TH AFTER BANKING EXPERIENCE IN SHELBY COUNTY AND OSKALOOSA.

Students at West Ridge Elementary School in Harlan held a talent show last week.

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today announced that he will again be visiting each of Iowa's 99 counties in 2009 to meet with Iowans and discuss agriculture and the issues facing farmers in the ...

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa -- An Iowa State trooper injured his left leg in a car accident early today on Interstate 29 outside Missouri Valley.