A program called Read Across Iowa offers the state’s elementary school teachers free books, lesson plans and activities for their classrooms during March, with a focus on food and agriculture. Professor Constance Beecher, in Iowa […]
A coalition of nearly 20 area shelters and housing organizations in northern Iowa recently completed the biannual Point-in-Time homeless census. Numbers were generally up across the region, but at the Northern Lights Alliance of Shelters […]
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is joining other Republicans in the U-S Senate who’re calling for an investigation of how the Biden Administration has handled changes in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA. […]
The next meeting for the Wright County Board of Supervisors will be this Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. in the downstairs board room of the courthouse in Clarion. The agenda includes the monthly revenue report […]
James “Jim”Risetter, 76, died Sunday,January 28 at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids,Minnesota. Funeral services for James Risetter will be held Saturday morning, February 3 at 11:00 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Webster City with visitation […]
Governor Kim Reynolds has introduced a bill that would require the gender listed on an Iowa driver’s license or birth certificate to match the person’s gender at birth — preventing transgender residents from changing the […]
A day after the governor’s proposed overhaul of Area Education Agencies was tabled by an Iowa House subcommittee, House Speaker Pat Grassley told reporters House Republicans intend to “reset” the conversation with parents and school […]
Democrats in the Iowa House are calling for an increase in the minimum wage, an expansion of the annual state sales tax holiday and a state subsidy for some child care workers. “We, as Iowa […]
While many Iowans are enjoying temperatures well above normal in the 40s and 50s, it was just two weeks ago that high temps were some 60 to 70-degrees colder — in the teens below zero. […]
The economies in Iowa and the Midwest improved, slightly, during January, according to Creighton University’s monthly survey of business leaders and supply managers in Iowa and eight other states. Creighton economist Ernie Goss says the […]
The chairmen of House and Senate committees that oversee tax policy are proposing what they describe as a sustainable way to gradually eliminate Iowa’s individual income tax. The idea? Have the Iowa Public Employees Retirement […]
Melissa Ann Thede, 40, of Churdan, died on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, in Sioux City, Iowa. Visitation will be held on Friday, February 2, 2024, from 5:00-7:00 PM at Gospel Open Bible Church in Jefferson, […]
Today is George Washington Carver Day in Iowa, and a Des Moines attorney will portray the world-famous agricultural scientist at their shared alma mater of Iowa State University. When he was an honors student at […]
The paddlefish snagging season on the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers opens today. The DNR’s western Iowa fisheries supervisor, Chris Larson, says river conditions should be good. “As soon as the ice goes off, typically […]
With Valentine’s Day coming up, we’ll be seeing a lot of red hearts, but also because it’s American Heart Month. Brian Geelan is a spokesman for the Iowa chapter of the American Heart Association. “We […]
All three members of a House panel have voted against a bill that would have removed protections for gender identity from Iowa’s Civil Rights Act. Republican Representative John Wills of Spirit Lake sid he has […]
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