Despite concerns from the Amish community, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is moving ahead with a plan to repave a county road outside of Kalona, Iowa. The project will resurface a portion of ...

The YWCA of Black Hawk County has announced a motorcoach tour to the Amish-Mennonite community of Kalona on July 21. Sightseeing will include an Amish countryside tour, with lunch in the farm home of ...

WELLMAN — Mid-Prairie Community School District looks like any of the dozens of rural school districts in Iowa. Its boundaries encompass 215 square miles of soybeans and corn, broken up by the ...

WELLMAN, Iowa (AP) -- Amish dairy farmers in the Kalona-Wellman area wanted to jump on the value-added agriculture wagon that has been rolling through Iowa, but their beliefs held them back. They ...

KALONA, Iowa (AP) -- The teenage girls were up at 3 -- in the morning -- and working by 4. They were smiling and laughing, wiping dry hundreds of cans with white dish towels. And not complaining. Not ...