More than 120 officers and 200 first responders and volunteers searched throughout the day in Webster, Boone and Hamilton Counties, trying to locate 15 year old Kathlynn Shepard. The search has been driven by investigative leads. This information continues to direct law enforcement to search locations...

City commissioners accepted Mayor Jack Hobbie's Monday appointment of David Partsch as the new city attorney effective July 8.

Fiscal year 2011 marked the first decrease in per student public education spending since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on an annual basis in 1977, according to new statistics released today (dollars not adjusted for inflation). The 50 states and the District of Columbia spent $10,560 per...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.

Mayor Jack Hobbie and representatives of Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce and Nebraska City News-Press awarded the 2013 prestigious tree award to Skip Hammond for the “treaty tree” during the community tree planting activities at the Lewis and Clark Center.

Irrigation proved to be the difference between the "haves" and "have-nots" in farm income in drought-stricken 2012 in Nebraska.

Vandals have targeted some of the professional artwork that has been installed around the community as part of the Enchanted Arboretum public art project.The question now is how to protect the art pieces.