Month: April 2024

Groups of Iowa Capitol insiders gathered outside the statehouse this afternoon to view a partial solar eclipse. A group of high schoolers who are House pages and paid to run errands for lawmakers stood on […]

Federal tax returns are due one week from today, and Iowans who think they’re not going to have their forms filled out by then should file for an extension. IRS spokesman Christopher Miller says it’s […]

DNR staff are now going out after dark and driving back roads to conduct surveys of wildlife. State deer biologist, Jace Elliott, says it’s something they do every spring. “Every county has two different 25-mile […]

The Iowa DCI investigating a shooting by Cedar Rapids police officers that left one man dead and another wounded. Cedar Rapids police were called to a residence on the northeast side around 6:30 Saturday evening […]

A coalition that supports Iowa’s long-standing “Bottle Bill” says 29 counties are now “redemption deserts” where there is nowhere to take an empty beverage can or bottle and redeem the deposit fee. Iowa lawmakers changed […]

Firefighters from 12 north central Iowa departments battled the wind and rain early Sunday morning to fight the flames at a grain facility in rural Hamilton County. Blairsburg Fire Chief Rod Harris says the call […]

The view of today’s solar eclipse will range from excellent to so-so to lousy, depending on where you’re located in Iowa at mid-day. Meteorologist Dylan Dodson, at the National Weather Service, says folks in the […]