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 ...

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 ...

Iowa State Patrol reports that three people sustained serious or life-threatening injuries after a car drove the wrong way on Interstate 80. In total, eight people ended up in the hospital Sunday ...

What will West Branch do with the end of the penny? Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to access the E-Edition. To subscribe to the print edition ...

Senator Kerry Gruenhagen, R-Walcott, announced recently he would run for re-election in Senate District 41. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to ...

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 ...

Matt Colbert was named to the President’s List at Drake University for the Spring 2025 semester. To be eligible for the President’s List, students must have earned a perfect 4.0 GPA for the semester.

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.

Seventh-grade pupils will try to turn fire into fresh water this weekend. The West Branch Kiwanis Club’s Junior High Builders Club will take over the popular fresh doughnut stand during Christmas Past ...

Winter Storm Bellamy dropped about eight inches of snow on the city over the weekend, but emergency officials reported no injuries and only two crashes. Light snow began falling Friday night, then ...

Super unleaded gas prices made their most dramatic drop in West Branch since the beginning of President Trump’s second term, falling 24 cents to $2.64 per gallon on Friday. Full text is available only ...

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 ...