Year: 2023

Iowa City is considering making its buses free to ride. Transportation director Darian Nagle-Gamm hopes the move will help bring back pre-pandemic ridership “We think this could really make a difference. If you give people […]

A priest in Florida has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor while he was serving as a priest at a Dubuque parish in the mid 1980s. A news release from the Archdiocese of […]

Two teenagers have been charged with stealing 100 dollars worth of alcohol from a Storm Lake gas station — and a clerk at the Midtown Brew gas station faces charges for allegedly hitting one of […]

State Auditor Rob Sand says a bill sent to the governor that would limit the auditor’s access to some confidential information could lead to a lot of extra time in court. “If the governor signs […]

Farmers saw enough dry weather last week that planting season is closing in on the end. The U.S.D.A. crop report released Monday shows 95% of the corn crop is now in the ground. That’s nine […]

Iowa assistant basketball coach Jan Jensen — a graduate of Elk Horn-Kimballton High School — will be the grand marshal of Saturday’s Tivoli Fest parade in Elk Horn. Stan Jens, a former Elk Horn mayor, […]

Historic buildings that used to be part of Maytag’s campus in Newton will be renovated into a hotel and an apartment building. The former Maytag campus was donated to Des Moines Area Community College in […]

Creighton University economist Erie Goss says he expects D.C. negotiators will strike a deal to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling. “To paraphrase Winston Churchill, when you try every other thing that doesn’t work, you […]

A non-profit organization that works to bring locally grown food to people in need is getting more money from the U.S.D.A. Giselle Bruskewitz is the director of the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development program […]

Officials say a southeast Iowa man who was allegedly trying to evade arrest was killed in an accident in Bloomfield. The Iowa State Patrol says on Saturday night around nine, 19-year-old Reese Jones of Ottumwa […]

The Iowa Hawkeye baseball team opens the Big Ten Tournament Tuesday morning in Omaha when the third seeded Hawkeyes play sixth seeded Michigan. Iowa finished the regular season 39-13 and coach Rick Heller’s team has […]

A Cedar Rapids man drowned in the Iowa Great Lakes this weekend. Officials say 21-year-old Alexander Glover was in the area on vacation when he jumped off a boat to swim in the Miller’s Bay […]

A southwest Iowa man has died after his pickup crashed into a semi. The accident happened at around 8 p.m. Sunday in Red Oak. The Iowa State Patrol reports 68-year-old Miles H. Russell of Red […]

A Maquoketa native who’s composed music for symphony orchestras in Boston and New York has written two pieces for the instrumental music programs in Spencer. John Frantzen says he rarely writes for school age musicians. […]

A new report ranks Iowa 20th in the nation for the overall health of older adults. The annual “America’s Health Rankings” by the United Health Care Foundation looks at more than 50 factors that affect […]

A special traffic enforcement effort target at seatbelt usage gets underway today in the state. Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau spokesman, Brett Tjepkes says Iowa continues to have good numbers in seatbelt surveys. “We’ve been, you […]

A University of Iowa study finds people who have a blundering boss will give them a pass if that boss is older, but they’ll judge more harshly if the boss is younger. Michele Williams, a […]