June is a great time to see the birds that nest at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Enjoy a guided tour at 8 a.m.

The Jasper County Board of Supervisors approved less than $15,000 worth of concrete that will be poured onto a new bridge ...

In stark contrast to the Newton school district’s baseball field restrooms and concessions stand project, the designs for the ...

Limited to two hits at the plate, the Newton baseball team dropped both games of a doubleheader against Class 3A No. 5 Pella ...

Pella though scored twice in the fifth and three more times in the seventh to pull away for good. “We played better in the ...

Newton senior Paige Benson, second from the left, signed with the Central College women’s tennis team last week. She was ...

The Iowa Adventure Pass is back thanks to the collaboration of libraries across the state and local museums and destinations.

Studies show being read to every day at home is the single biggest predictor of later success in school. Reading 1,000 books ...

The Iowa Brewery Running Series will hosts a 5kish fun run starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 14 at Gezellig Brewing Co., 403 ...

Following an incident in which local firefighters responded to an accidental fire caused by a person smoking while using ...

I often wondered what those old rusty farm contraptions were sitting in the far corners of hay fields. Obviously, they had something to do with hay. Well, duh! They looked sorta like a horse-drawn hay ...

For the past five years that Newton residents have been paying a stormwater utility on their water bills, the city has ...