Month: October 2023

A new exhibit is opening soon at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum which highlights the creative ways materials were used — and reused — decades ago. Melanie Wier, assistant curator of the facility […]

State officials say nearly 19,000 applicants have qualified for state-funded accounts to cover private school expenses. In January, Republican legislators approved Governor Reynolds’ plan to deposit state money in Education Savings Accounts that are to […]

A Mitchell man is dead after being trapped in a grain bin. The Mitchell County Sheriff’s Office says they received a 9-1-1 call shortly after noon on Wednesday about a grain bin entrapment near the […]

State officials are predicting tax payments to the State of Iowa will drop by a little less than one percent during the current budgeting year due to previously approved tax cuts. Iowa Department of Management […]

The Iowa State Patrol has released the name of the man who was killed in a pickup-semi crash in Franklin County on Wednesday afternoon. The accident happened at Highway 3 and Lark Avenue in Hampton […]

The state Transportation Commission has approved funding for several existing recreational trails, and some new ones. The DOT’s Scott Flagg oversees the trail program and says one project will link the Raccoon River Valley Trail […]

The two-day annual Iowa Mission of Mercy free dental clinic will get underway in eastern Iowa Friday. Iowa Dental Foundation Executive Director Laurie Traetow says the offer all sorts of dental services from cleanings up […]

An Iowa Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker landed on its nose Wednesday at the Sioux City Gateway Airport when the nose gear did not come down. Airport manager Mike Collett says it happened around 2:30 […]

Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is urging her fellow Republicans in the U.S. House to quickly elect Steve Scalise as speaker. “Iowans are just fed up with the chaos and dysfunction and so am I and […]

The mother of a 10 year old Davenport girl who was killed three years ago says she will never forgive the man convicted of her daughter’s murder. Breasia Taylor was reported missing after a sleepover […]

UnityPoint, one of Iowa’s largest health care providers, is no longer planning a merger with a New Mexico-based health care system. West Des Moines-based UnityPoint operates 32 hospitals and 280 clinics in Iowa, Wisconsin and […]

An Iowa fire chief says there’s a good reason preventing kitchen fires is the focus of National Fire Safety Week this year. Estherville Fire Chief Travis Sheridan says most of the fires his department responds […]

Storm Lake Police took several juveniles into custody after a reported threat this morning at the Storm Lake Elementary School. ts. According to Storm Lake Police, officers got word of the threat during the morning […]

The Iowa Court of Appeals has denied a request for a new trial by the man convicted of murdering University of Iowa Student Mollie Tibbetts of Brooklyn in 2018. Cristhian Bahena Rivera appealed his first-degree […]

The latest Iowa Climate Statement signed by more than 200 scientists and researchers at Iowa colleges and universities says the state needs to invest more in solar power. Retired Iowa State University climate scientist Gene […]