Tanna Kampen, a dynamic entrepreneur from West Bend has successfully completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program. This milestone highlights her dedication to growing her business and ...

Volunteering at a food pantry is a great way to help others. Keeping food safe and handling food safely at the food pantry is the top job of every volunteer. Food pantry volunteers must read, ...

ORANGE CITY, Iowa - The Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Dairy Team will host its annual Dairy Directions Series January 7 in Sac City and January 8 in Pocahontas.

Inspections of more than 200 Algona homes as part of an effort to get to the bottom of sewage backflows found 15 suspected illegal drains and one sump pump violation. Officials also plan a $1 million ...

Carrie Hammer, daughter of Kirk and Julie Hayes, has been appointed as the associate dean of North Dakota State University’s College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources.

ALGONA—Since 2018, Iowa State Bank of Algona has been donating to local schools when their athletes earn a state-qualifying appearance. That’s when schools typically sell apparel as a fundraiser. The ...

District Associate Judge Ann Gales administered the oath to two new members of the Kossuth County Board of Supervisors, Amber Garman and Howard Haas. Current Kossuth County Auditor Tammy Eden and ...

Nancy Sorenson, (left) is this week’s Algona Area Chamber Holiday Prize Drawing winner. Sorenson registered at Grandgenett Jewelry and chose the $400 gift certificate prize offered at Hy-Vee.

This is a grand season for taxidermists the country over. One of them in New York was a poor man last summer, but now he has got a snug little fortune by stuffing and wiring half a million birds for ...

The Kossuth County Advance asked fourth graders at Lucia Wallace Elementary and Bishop Garrigan to create drawings that are about “What the Holiday Means to Me.” This year’s winners, as selected by ...

Algona Community School District board member Tom Nugent was honored with an Individual Achievement Award through the Iowa Association of School Boards (IASB) Annual Board Awards program. This award ...

Those who attended the craft night at the Burt Public Library last month got to go home with a gorgeous wreath that they made themselves.