The 2025 Kossuth County Fair Royalty was crowned Tuesday evening during a ceremony in the grandstands at the fairgrounds. The 2024 Kossuth County Fair Queen Meredith Tigges served as mistress of ...

The Algona Public Library's Summer Reading Program is in full swing, thanks to the help of their summer interns and the support of some of our local organizations and foundations. One of these is the ...

Bob Diekmann passed away March 31, 2025, at the age of 98. Shortly before he died, he and his daughter worked with the School Foundation to create the Bob and Myrna Diekmann Athletic Scholarship. Bob ...

Two proposals with the potential to impact development inside Algona took steps toward approval during the city council's meeting Monday, Dec. 2.

On Tuesday, July 8, Regina Lickteig Neville, former Bishop Garrigan student and former Algona resident will accompany German guests to Algona to celebrate the history of St. Benedict and the role that ...

Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge is soliciting sealed bids (per harvested ton) for hay harvest on three tracts of land to be harvested in August 2025. The tracts are located in Kossuth County as ...

WINONA, Minn. – Congratulations to undergraduate William Kahle of Algona, who was named to the 2025 spring semester Dean’s List at Saint Mary’s University. The list includes 389 undergraduate students ...

Secondary Roads worker Lynn Stevens will retire this week after seven years with the department. Stevens, of Algona, was honored Tuesday, July 8, by Kossuth County officials with a certificate of ...

1. Founders’ Day: There will be plenty to do this weekend at the Algona Founder’s Day celebration. Art in the Park, food trucks, parade, live music, a tour of Wildhaven Campus, Kid’s Bash, bag ...

Harry Clifford Skogstrom, Jr. (know always as Cliff) 85, passed away on Sept. 27, 2016, at his home in Green Valley, Ariz. He lived a long and happy life with family and friends who loved him.

Dalton Douglas Cooper, age 24 of Buffalo Center, passed away at his home Tuesday Oct. 12, 2021. Funeral services will be held Monday, Oct. 18, at 11 a.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Buffalo Center ...

Anne Elizabeth (Welp) Folkmann, 57, left this earthly life to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on June 11, 2021, following an extended illness.