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 […]

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Department and other first responders helped a woman give birth during last week’s blizzard. Deputy Joseph McMillen says he was concerned after getting the call because he had gotten stuck in […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has scaled back her proposal to overhaul Iowa’s Area Education Agencies. Last week, Reynolds released a plan to focus AEAs solely on special education for children with disabilities. In a news release, […]

Many Iowa businesses are still struggling to recover from last week’s double-whammy of monster snowstorms, including LifeServe Blood Center. Center spokeswoman Shay Willis says the heavy snowfalls caused the center several setbacks, which impacted perhaps […]

The Iowa House has passed a resolution supporting Israel’s “right to act decisively….to pursue the elimination of Hamas” after the terror attack on October 7. The resolution expressed sympathy and support for the families of […]

Beth Goetz has been named the University of Iowa’s permanent athletic director after serving in the role as interim since Aug. 2. She will begin immediately. “Beth is a talented and dynamic leader and the […]

The spokesman for the state’s largest utility company says the heavy winds that accompanied the storms last week helped create an electric generation record. MidAmerican spokesman Geoff Greenwood, says the company’s turbines did a lot […]

Another winter storm is headed for Iowa but forecasters say it shouldn’t bring anywhere near as much snow as the two monster storms of last week. A Winter Weather Advisory is posted for most of […]

A Marshalltown man faces nearly two years in prison after pleading guilty to insurance fraud linked to two major storms. Court information shows 32-year-old Timothy Sletten presented false work invoices from contractors for repairs to […]

Iowa Republican Party officials say just over 110,000 Iowans participated in Monday night’s Caucuses. Party chairman Jeff Kaufmann said it happened when some areas of the state had a wind chill of negative 30 degrees. […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is among a bipartisan group of lawmakers who hosted today’s U.S. Capitol visit from families of Americans being held hostage in Gaza. “For over 100 days now Americans have been held […]