By Travis Fischer, [email protected] It’s the end of the world as we know it. Or, at least, the end of one ...

Cleo Katherine Hebert Cleo Katherine (Staudt) Hebert, 98, of Charles City, Iowa, passed away on June 18, 2025, at the Nora Springs Care Center in Nora Springs, Iowa. A funeral Mass for Cleo Hebert was ...

FISCHER: The future is on hold By Travis Fischer, [email protected] It’s 2025. We’re living in the future. Every so often I like to stop and marvel at what we can do today with technology ...

By Travis Fischer, [email protected] Faithful readers may remember the trials and tribulations I went through last year to get my elliptical machine assembled. It was a hectic story of ...

Charles City Elks Lodge No. 418 celebrated the history of the American Flag on Saturday, June 14, with its annual Flag Day commemoration ceremony. “It was fun,” said Jessica Perry. “Beautiful weather ...

Charles City junior Sawyer Hanson delivers a pitch as New Hampton senior Landon Marr leads off second base during the first game of Tuesday’s NEIC doubleheader. NH won the first game 4-2 after it was ...

Pure Prairie Poultry Timeline Dec. 2021 – Pure Prairie Poultry purchases and begins restoring the former Simply Essentials poultry plant in Charles City. Nov. 2022 – Initial production of whole ...

By Travis Fischer, [email protected] The numbers are in for what the Charles City Community School District may be seeking approval for in a bonding vote this November to renovate the ...

A long-anticipated mediation report from a group discussing a proposed Floyd County commercial wind energy ordinance won’t be revealed at Tuesday morning’s Board of Supervisors meeting as had been ...

About 50 firefighters from across the region responded late Saturday night to a fire at Custom Wood Products Inc., a 30,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the city’s Southwest Industrial Park.

The Cedar River will be churning with activity again this Saturday, June 28, as Charles City once again hosts the Iowa Games Whitewater Slalom events at Riverfront Park – if river conditions allow it.

Charles City got lucky on Friday, June 13, as Main Street Charles City put on its second in this year’s series of Party in the Park. “It’s a lovely evening,” said Community Development Director Mark ...