Sommer and Kassidy Mosch thought they'd hit a stroke of luck when Kassidy's best friend Emily won tickets to see a live taping of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" through an Instagram contest about 16 months ago. Read more
It’s like a kennel for horses. That’s the simplest explanation. But what South Fork Livestock Equine Boarding really is, is much more. Read more
A proposed wind farm, which one local elected official has called “the largest economic development project in the history of Hardin County” received the full backing of the Iowa Falls and Alden city councils this week, even as a county moratorium on commercial wind energy construction permi… Read more
Eighty-seven points should be more than enough to win a high school basketball game, but that tally was six points short for Iowa Falls-Alden following Thursday's regular season finale in Char… Read more
From the opening tip of the Class 2A District 14 semifinals, South Hardin could not find its rhythm offensively. Read more
The path to success was fairly cut and dried for the AGWSR boys basketball team during Tuesday's Class 1A District Quarterfinal. Read more
With three games left in the regular season, Ellsworth Community College knows the highest it will finish is the fifth seed. However, they still have to defeat Southwestern Community College o… Read more
No matter what happens in the Region XI Tournament, one of the top two teams in the country will not be playing for a national title. Read more
Seven greenbelt area wrestlers will begin their quest to reach the podium at Wells Fargo Arena when the 2020 State Wrestling Tournament begins Thursday in Des Moines. Read more
The AGWSR Cougars picked the right time to play perhaps their best full four quarters of the season. It came in 49-31 Class 1A Region 2 Quarterfinal win over BCLUW. The two North Iowa Cedar Le… Read more
SH-BCLUW’s Carter Kolthoff was looking to avenge his freshman year loss in the district meet. Read more
How are residents and business leaders in Hardin County changing the game? The Times Citizen and Ackley World Journal news staff set out to answer that question with this year’s Progress special section. That section — all 36 pages of stories, photographs and advertising — is inside today’s … Read more
Just when you thought the sting of the caucus reporting debacle had eased, candidates had moved on to New Hampshire, and life began to settle back down, this op-ed appears in your newspaper. I’m not trying to reopen old wounds, but there are a few things that need and deserve to be said. Read more
So, I felt kind of bad. The Saturday before the Iowa caucuses, a vehicle pulled into the driveway and two young women got out carrying paperwork and iPads. I was in the middle of eating lunch and watched them through the front glass door as they slowly walked toward the house then up the ste… Read more
