New rules will tighten up payment requirements for the West Branch Early Learning Center and quadruple the enrollment fee. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber ...

Junior High Builders turned 3,000 doughnuts into three water pumps during A Christmas Past. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to access the ...

Care Initiatives’ Crestview Nursing and Rehab recently welcomed two new members of its manaagement team, DeShayla Pfannebecker and Alexander “Xander” Buffington. Full text is available only to ...

Samsara, three spots along Iowa’s section of Interstate 80 make up the “most dangerous winter roads in America.” Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click ...

West Branch’s green grocer is now its red, white, and blue grocer. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to access the E-Edition. To subscribe to ...

West Branch Mayor Roger Laughlin presented Police Chief Greg Hall with a Life Saving Award on Dec. 15 to recognize his efforts to save the life of a construction worker Sept. 30. Full text is ...

After a contentious meeting two weeks earlier, the West Branch City Council and owners of The Meadows subdivision reached an agreement on the city taking over 9.33 acres of land. Full text is ...

“I’ve never built anything this big,” Branden Chiles said Friday night while looking over his model train display at Christmas Past. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a ...

A model train display will return. Fresh doughnuts will return, but with new organizers. A chili cookoff returns to West Branch. A Gingerbread House contest makes its debut. And many of the favorites ...

Two golfers surprised themselves on Saturday, hitting back-to-back holes-in-one during the same tournament, one right after the other. And they just happened to do so on a closest-to-the-pin hole.

Wed, Oct. 8 • NO Early Dismissal at WB schools • 6:30 p.m. Library Board of Trustees Meeting Fri, Oct. 10 • 10 a.m. 6th Grade Fall Band Concert, Perf. Arts Center • 10:15 a.m. Tater Tots Storytime, ...