Month: January 2024

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has suspended his presidential campaign, six days after finishing a distant second to former President Trump in the Iowa Caucuses. “It’s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters […]

There was a fatal house fire in Orange City this morning. Orange City Fire Chief Dan Roghair says they were called around 7 a.m. and found flames and smoke were coming from the home. Chief […]

Forecasters say high temperatures today and tomorrow won’t get out of the single digits, and wind chills may hit 30-below tonight, so frostbite is a serious risk as Iowans clear the latest snowfall from their […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says her push to overhaul Area Education Agencies is designed to address a bloated bureaucracy and 20 years of lagging test scores among Iowa students with disabilities. “Do you think we need […]

Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in December after four months of slight increases. Iowa Workforce Development director, Beth Townsend, says the rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 3.2% in December. “It’s a small change. […]

The manager of the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in western Iowa reports not as many birds flew through the area this past migration season. Desoto manager Tom Cox says the drought, left the refuge without […]

Five Iowa mayors are joining more than 250 of their counterparts from across the country for the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart, who’s just started […]

Senator Chuck Grassley has been discharged from a hospital in the Washington, D.C. area where he was being treated for an infection. On Tuesday, Grassley’s U.S. Senate office announced Grassley was receiving antibiotic infusions as […]

Officials with the Iowa Donor Network are releasing numbers for 2023 to celebrate the extraordinary impact of organ and tissue donation. Network spokeswoman Heather Butterfield says during the past year, 123 “donor heroes” in Iowa […]