Businesses across downtown Boone saw a substantial boost in foot traffic, sales and community energy during the annual Boonerang Music and Arts Festival.

Modeled partly on the Dickeyville Grotto, Madeline Buol spent 15 years building a backyard shrine that is now on view at the ...

Thirteen area football players, coaches, managers and cheerleaders will participate in the 50th Anniversary Iowa Shrine Bowl (@iowashrinebowl) at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Saturday.

"Walking with Dinosaurs" and Benson Boone's sophomore album "American Heart" are some of the new television, films, music and ...

MARYVILLE, Mo. – L. D. Young, 88, of Maryville, Missouri, passed away on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at the Maryville Living Center. Logan Douglas Young III was born on July 25, 1936, in Quitman ...

Jacky Stecker, 94, of Boone, Iowa, passed away at home in Boone on Monday, April 21, 2025. She was born on December 9, 1930, in Fairfield, Iowa, the daughter of Roy and Margery Ehrhardt. On May 21, ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa | Iowa’s annual Shrine Bowl high school all-star football classic is moving to the UNI-Dome next summer.

CEDAR FALLS — Many of last year’s top high school football players come together Saturday in the UNI-Dome for the 47th annual Iowa Shrine All-Star Football Classic. While the event offers fans ...

How is Interstate 35 between Ames and Des Moines? The Iowa DOT, at 9 a.m. Wednesday, said a significant stretch of Interstate 35, from the Highway 30 exit south to Elkhart, was impassable because of ...

And readers who prefer to donate by check can mail them to Embrace Iowa, P.O. Box 10611, Cedar Rapids, IA 52410-0611. Richard Lane is a freelance writer based in Des Moines.

Shedeur Sanders has made quite an impression on the East-West Shrine staff. I've talked to 4 people on staff, they all say he's been pleasant to work with and willing to do whatever they ask of him.