Month: September 2023

State Climatologist Justin Glisan says a tornado outbreak is unlikely this month because Iowa is in a severe weather drought. “When you don’t have thunderstorms to drive rainfall, you don’t get a lot of severe […]

Iowans are being reminded that a recent critical security patch for Windows computers and cellphones is a good reminder to keep those software updates automatic. Information security expert Mike Masino says it’s the easiest way […]

An Iowan who won gold medals at the Paralympics in 2016 and 2021 has been inducted into the National Wheelchair Basketball Hall of Fame. Joshua Turek of Council Bluffs was born with a condition called […]

Class 5A 1. Southeast Polk (2-0), LW #1 vs #3 Prairie 2. Dowling Catholic (2-0), LW #2 vs #10 Ankeny 3. Cedar Rapids Prairie (2-0), LW #5 @ #1 S.E. Polk 4. Linn-Mar (2-0), LW […]

The northwest Iowa event billed as the world’s largest county fair starts on Saturday. This is Jerome Hertel’s first year as manager of the Clay County Fair in Spencer. “This fair is pretty much similar, […]

About one in every eight Iowa women will develop breast cancer during their lives, and a rise in breast cancer cases among women in their 40s is bringing new preliminary screening guidelines. The recommendation now […]

Iowans who are getting aggressive calls from loan collectors need to be sure the loans they’re trying to collect are real, especially before making payments. Lisa Schiller, with the Better Business Bureau, says those collectors […]

Two people were killed Saturday afternoon in a motorcycle-truck accident east of Woolstock. The Iowa State Patrol identified the victims as 52-year-old Eric Gustafson of Thompson, Iowa and 48-year-old Mindy Chandler of Waukee, Iowa. Reportedly, […]