If you didn’t get enough old farm machinery during Orange Spectacular this past weekend, you’ll be happy to know the 40th annual Heatwole Thresher Show is coming to McLeod County. The popular event, ...

OSAGE, Iowa - Do white marks on the highway caused by a steel-wheel tractor constitute damage? John Ray Nolt, 30, of Alta Vista, who was charged with violating Iowa Code Section 321.442, which forbids ...

OSAGE, Iowa — Mitchell County Attorney Mark Walk and Colin Murphy, attorney for a 13-year-old Mennonite boy, must respond to each other’s legal briefs by the end of the week. Magistrate DeDra ...

LEWISBURG — An Old Order Mennonite man said Thursday night that those of his brethren who use steel-wheel tractors on public roads try to limit damage to the road surface by using modern tires, which ...

The Case-Trackson Model CD with tracks pulls a scraper to excavate for a subdivision in 1930. A Tarkington Township crew pulls a road drag behind a Case steel-wheel tractor in Sangamon County, Ill., ...

A reader raised an issue that has been rolling around the county for many years: Amish vehicles and their impact on asphalt roads. In Colerain Township, residents have expressed concern about damage ...

When the first tractors arrived on farms in the 1890s, they were equipped with steel wheels, and it took 40 years for inflatable rubber tyres to arrive. Steel wheels were already standard equipment on ...

OSAGE | A Mitchell County ordinance banning the use of steel wheels on paved roads was challenged again in court Friday. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that the ordinance violated the religious ...

OSAGE, Iowa (AP) - A magistrate has ruled a revised ordinance limiting the use of steel wheels on Mitchell County’s paved roads still violates the religious freedom of Mennonites. Mitchell County ...