Several community groups are seeking funding from Kossuth County for 2025. Representatives of the groups presented their funding requests on Tuesday, Dec. 3, to the Kossuth County Board of Supervisors ...

DES MOINES—Four members of the Bishop Garrigan Golden Bears football team were named first-team all-state recently by the Iowa Football Coaches Association. Also named to the eight-man second-team all ...

DES MOINES—After a very successful 2024 campaign, three members of the Algona Bulldog football team were selected to Iowa Football Coaches Association all-state teams recently.

MASON CITY—Mara Davis and Regan Jensen earned individual titles to highlight the performances of the Algona Bulldog girls’ wrestling squad at the Riverhawk Girls Invitational held on Tuesday, Nov. 26.

Sophomore Graclyn Eastman poured in a career-high 30 points to help lead the top-ranked Bishop Garrigan Golden Bear girls basketball squad to a 78-20 non-conference victory in the season opener held ...

ALGONA—Algona scored the first 10 points of the contest and never trailed in a 66-37 season opening victory over the Estherville-Lincoln Central Midgets on Monday, Dec. 2. Senior Ben Helmers poured in ...

ALGONA—An all-state selection returns for his fourth consecutive year to highlight the members of the 20th annual edition of the Kossuth County Advance’s All-Area Football Team. Iowa State recruit ...

ALGONA—Fifth-ranked Forest City out-scored sixth-ranked Algona 14-6 in the game’s final 3:39 to break open a two-point contest and went onto a 64-54 season-opening non-conference win on Tuesday, Nov.

When you have eight kids under the age of 9, you make the paper in 1971. They also knew the most popular toys that year. I hope they got everything they wanted.

Former Algona High School graduate A’Laliah Perry is one of numerous athletes named to the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference’s all-academic team for the fall semester. Perry is a 5’ 11” ...

ALGONA—Top-rated Estherville-Lincoln Central ground out a 53-26 non-conference girls basketball victory on Monday, Dec. 2 over sixth-ranked Algona. The home team was as cold as the temperature outside ...

FORT DODGE—St. Edmond went 10 of 10 from the free throw line in the final 1:22 to hold on for a hard fought 56-51 season opening non-conference boys basketball victory over the Bishop Garrigan Golden ...