Year: 2023

At a time when many rural hospitals are closing their birthing units, a medical center in northwest Iowa is planning a significant expansion. Tara Geddes, chief nursing officer at Floyd Valley Healthcare in Le Mars, […]

New yellow-and-white warning signs are now posted on six segments of roadways across Iowa, stretches that are among the most dangerous in the state. The Iowa Department of Transportation is launching a pilot program, naming […]

Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of government borrowing plans were approved by voters in this year’s city-school elections in Iowa. Eighty percent of Polk County voters approved a $350 million plan to build a […]

State Banking Superintendent Jeff Plagge says the Sac City bank he declared insolvent on Friday had heavy losses on some of its loans to commercial trucking firms. “This (bank) had a segment of a business […]

The Board of Regents will hear a report from the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion study group at its meeting next week on the UNI campus. The group made ten recommendations, including ensuring that employee performance […]

Much of Iowa has seen warmer-than-normal temperatures in recent days, but autumn will soon transition to winter and the National Weather Service is encouraging Iowans to prepare now for the inevitable. Meteorologist Chad Hahn says […]

Investigators suspect embers from ground up hay sparked a large fire in rural Sioux County that drew a response from two dozen fire departments, including some from South Dakota. The fire started Sunday afternoon in […]

Another potential federal government shutdown looms in ten days, and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley predicts there will -not- be an agreement reached by November 17th, so another stopgap measure will be required to again extend […]

The corn and soybean harvest could be close to wrapping up this week. The U.S.D.A. crop report  says just 3% of the soybeans remain to be harvested statewide, and around 10%of the corn. The majority […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is joining Republicans who’ve expressed doubts of Donald Trump’s chances of regaining the White House and has endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for president. Reynolds joined DeSantis at a campaign rally tonight […]

A state panel has approved a legal settlement that will pay millions to two adopted siblings of an Iowa teenager who was abused and starved to death by a couple from Perry. Sabrina Ray was […]

The Animal Rescue League of Iowa is now caring for the 46 horses that were seized from a property in Dallas County near Madrid last week. The Dallas County Sheriff charged the owner of the […]

An attempted traffic stop led to a chase and gunfire in central Iowa on Sunday. Des Moines police say an officer tried to pull a car over Sunday morning and the vehicle sped away, leaving […]

The state is taking applications for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, otherwise known as LIHEAP. Program manager, Bill Marquess says the situation is a lot better for many who fell behind on their […]

Iowa sophomore kicker Drew Stevens has been named Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week following his game-winning field goal with 14 seconds remaining to defeat Northwestern at Wrigley Field, it was announced Monday […]

Nearly 200,000 registered Democrats did not vote in 2022 and Iowa Democratic Party leaders say they’re focused on getting that group to vote in 2024. Rob Johnson, a Baptist minister from Des Moines, opened the […]