The Ottumwa High School Activities Office has announced that longtime head coach Frank Huston will return—pending board approval—as Interim Head Softball Coach for the 2025 season. Huston, who ...

The Blue Demon Archers competed at the Iowa Winter Games in Ottumwa on Saturday, Feb. 8. Teams from Cardinal, ...

When the Market Street Landing redevelopment project was unveiled, the negative comments online were fairly predictable. Some praised the effort, recognizing it as an opportunity to embrace progress ...

The final varsity basketball doubleheader ever played at Evans Middle School Gymnasium may be on hold until next week. Friday's scheduled games between the Ames and Ottumwa basketball team was called ...

Wednesday's winter storm system delivered up to a foot of snow across southern Iowa, with Ottumwa receiving around 7 inches of snow according to local weather reports. The system shifted somewhat ...

For the first time in over two decades, Doug Techel wasn't so sure if the Ottumwa High School girls bowling team could make ...

The Marshalltown girls’ basketball team had two goals as the focal point of its gameplan for Friday’s game at Ottumwa: limit turnovers and slow down Camdyn Crouse. The Bobcats were 0-for-2. Crouse ...

More As and Bs. Fewer failing grades. Plus a dip in referrals for behavior. Ottumwa schools are making great strides after adopting a strict cell phone policy.

For Jordin Mayson and Delilah Subsin, the opening round of the Iowa High School Girls State Wrestling Tournament produced two very different type of matches. The only thing that was similar, however, ...

Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill to restrict the use of “personal electronic devices” during instructional hours.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE — A lone bicycle stands in the rack outside East High School, Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in Denver ...

Bramschreiber said, “we’re trying to bring them back to how we were in the time that I graduated from high school because we didn’t know anything other than face to face communication. “ Bramschreiber ...