Dwayne Benson News Today

Fire officials are reminding people to be vigilant when they're out on the ice, no matter where they are, because ice thickness can change daily.

AREA — While the local spotlight shone on a pair of high profile city council races in Marshalltown and bond issues for the BCLUW school district and the city

This week's new music also includes tunes from Harper O'Neill, Colbie Caillat and Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out.

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out will make its pilgrimage to the Carter Family Fold this weekend.

Banjo player, singer and songwriter Gina Furtado’s distinctive original songs are an aspect of her music that has won her a boatload of bluegrass airplay. Still, she’s an equally distinctive interpreter, as her previous single, a tip of the hat to African-American gospel favorites, the Golden Gate Quartet, showed — and now she’s following up with another tribute, this time to a couple of bluegrass giants: Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens.

Wildcat Bluff Nature Center is hosting a two-part wilderness survival program starting Saturday.

Community news and happenings for this week.

A beloved missionary and pastor who was driving to preach at a local church in Michigan on Sunday has died after a wrong-way crash that state police say might have been triggered by a drunk driver.

A beloved missionary and pastor who was driving to preach at a local church in Michigan on Sunday has died after a wrong-way crash that state police say might have been triggered by a drunk driver.

To everything there is a season, the saying goes, and for Wayne and Kristin Scott Benson, the time has come — not to abandon the successful musical ventures they’ve been involved in for years, but to add a new one: their first truly collaborative effort under their own name.