Month: May 2024

All the recent rain has pushed up water levels in Iowa’s lakes, rivers and streams, flooding many waterways — with a busy boating holiday just ahead. Susan Stocker, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ boating […]

Continued rains across the state brought more improvement in the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday. DNR Hydrologist Tim Hall says the two most severe categories of drought are no longer found on the map. “So […]

.National Weather Service survey teams have identified damage in Greenfield and southern Adair County indicating Tuesday’s tornado was an EF4 — a thousand yard wide twister than was on the ground for 44 miles. It […]

The Iowa Girls’ State Wrestling Tournament is expanding to two classes. The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union added girls wrestling as a sanctioned sport two years ago and the first two state tournaments were […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says more than 200 Iowa homes were destroyed by Tuesday’s tornadoes, including more than 150 in Greenfield. Reynolds and the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured Greenfield this morning. “We […]

Coe College in Cedar Rapids is opening an aviation management program and a professional pilot flight school in partnership with Revv Aviation and the Eastern Iowa Airport. Coe College President David Hayes says this is […]

Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Davenport says email obtained by a U.S. House subcommittee shows the senior scientific advisor in the National Institutes of Health has made vile comments about women in medicine. Miller-Meeks questioned […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says Tuesday’s massive storm “ravaged the state” and she’s asking for a Presidential Disaster Declaration for four Iowa counties that have “significant damage.” In a letter sent to the White House this […]