Calhoun County News

When it comes to the flu, schools can be a "germ factory" for spreading the virus.

With so many students home sick with the flu, a Calhoun County school decided to cancel classes.

A reward in the case of a gunman targeting liquid propane tanks at hog operations in Iowa has grown to $10,000. Authorities say eight tanks have been ruptured on hog farms in Calhoun and Sac counties.

The Republican Party has become a party of too many compromises, according to the founder of a third party that proclaims its adherence to the U.S. Constitution.

Calhoun County authorities say a gunman is targeting liquid propane tanks located on hog farms in the area.

Nearly a dozen liquid propane tanks have been fired upon by someone using a high-caliber rifle, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.

Calhoun County authorities say a gunman is targeting liquid propane tanks located on hog farms in the area.

Calhoun County, Iowa, authorities say a gunman is targeting liquid propane tanks located on hog farms in the area.

Do a good turn daily. Service above self. ... To help other people at all times.

For someone who just celebrated their 200th birthday on February 12, 2009, Abraham Lincoln looks pretty good.

As Jerry Chizek makes his way around his new Iowa State University Extension region, he's quick to reassure folks that "Extension will still be in the relationship business." Since Aug.

For nearly five years the city of Pomeroy has been without a shelter in Gordon Prange Memorial City Park.

Parade-goers in Farnhamville came up with a new way of handing out and receiving candy Saturday morning.

The hailstorm that tore through corn and soybean fields Sunday morning along U.S. Highway 20 from Webster and Calhoun counties east to Hamilton, Hardin and Grundy counties caused an estimated $25 million to $30 million in crop losses in Hardin County alone.

When the hailstones began to pound Kirby Batz' fields near Yetter around 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, things quickly went from bad to worse.

The following projects in the Fort Dodge region are being paid for with money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The future of South Twin Lake will be up for discussion this evening in Rockwell City.

About $5 million from Iowa's new I-JOBS program will be invested in roads and bridges in the Fort Dodge area over the next two years, state officials reported Thursday.

The Calhoun County Expo features a wide variety of annual recognitions from animal showings to ribbon awardings to the crowning of Miss Calhoun County.

This newspaper remains concerned that some aspects of the stimulus package approved by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama are imprudent.