MASON CITY — Nearly 14 years ago, Angie Barber and husband Brad opened their first coffeehouse in downtown Clear Lake. That store, Cabin Coffee Co., is now the headquarters for a growing multi-state ...

Around this time every year we start talking about the lake. “Who’s going this year?” someone will ask, though it’s kind of a silly question. The same people go every year. For more than 40 years my ...

The owners of an Iowa-based chain of coffee shops are being named Iowa’s Small Business Persons of the year by the Iowa District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Brad Barber, and his ...

On a toasty summer day at Wild Diamond Vineyards, a winery about a 2.5-hour drive north of San Francisco, a friend and I clinked glasses and sipped a top-notch cabernet. From the new hilltop tasting ...

Cabin owners at Clear Lake say they’re happy they’ll be able to get back on the water this summer after a year-long boat ban due to attempts by Parks Canada to stop the spread of zebra mussels. Park ...