Dressed in the decorative uniform of a firefighter, Sean Canto exuded the confidence of someone in his craft for over 30 years.

The Downtown Resource Center will present funding opportunities and resources for building and business owners, as well as the City of Fairfield, at an event on Wedn.

A judge sentenced a man who pled guilty to enticement of a minor child to 10 years in prison. Adam Joseph Mckinney, 42, of Okemos, Michigan, agreed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of enticing a ...

The Ottumwa Police Department arrested a man on the city's south side Monday afternoon after receiving a complaint about a possible sexual assault of a minor.

OTTUMWA — Southern Iowa could see more snow this weekend, but Friday afternoon forecasters saw the systems target shift south ...

Ridership on Amtrak at the Ottumwa station in fiscal year 2024 grew by more than 1,000 riders from the previous fiscal year, as national rail company recently released ...

Nearly three years after a femur bone was recovered from the Des Moines River near Keosauqua, DNA evidence has confirmed it ...

The final score doesn't tell the story of just how close the Pekin High School girls basketball team was to handing Columbus ...

It could have been a long holiday break for the Cardinal High School boys wrestling team. Fortunately for the Comets, a trip ...

As the year 2024 comes to a close, here’s a look back on a year’s of news that appeared in the pages of the Ottumwa Courier.

The City of Ottumwa Friday afternoon announced the hire of Sean Canto as its next fire chief. Canto replaces Tony Miller, who retired in September 2023, leaving the city with an interim fire chief ...

The New York Giants lost by winning. A rare victory — 45-33 over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday — knocked the Giants out of ...