Month: March 2023

A new AARP report finds the 330,000 unpaid family caregivers contributed work that would be worth $5.2 billion in 2021. AARP Iowa director, Brad Anderson, says that’s an increase of one BILLION dollars — due […]

Two people were killed in a fiery two-vehicle crash in southern Iowa’s Ringgold County Wednesday evening. The Iowa State Patrol reports the accident happened at around 8:45-p.,m. south of Kellerton. Two pickups collided at the […]

Iowa opens the NCAA Tournament in Birmingham this afternoon against Auburn. It’s Iowa fourth straight appearance in the tournament. The game will be played about two hours from the Auburn campus. “I don’t think anybody […]

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board today  approved the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads — a move that eventually will triple train traffic through parts of eastern and southern Iowa. Board chair […]

The Iowa House has sent Governor Kim Reynolds the state government reorganization plan her staff and a consulting firm developed over the past year. It reduces the number of state agencies from 37 to 16. […]

The National Weather Service predicts a wet spring in eastern Iowa and a rising Mississippi River, so the city of Davenport is preparing for the possibility of major flooding. In the Quad Cities, flood walls […]

A Senate committee has approved a bill that would gradually eliminate the state income tax — if state tax revenues continue to grow. Senator Dan Dawson, a Republican from Council Bluffs, is chairman of the […]

Sioux City’s Tyson Events Center is in its 24th year of hosting the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Championship Tournament. Steve Salem, one of the volunteer coordinators, says those who donate their time make everything possible, […]

The state Transportation Commission has approved a grant to build a roadway into proposed plant at a site in Plymouth County south of Le Mars. Deb Arp of the DOT presented the proposal for what’s […]