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 […]