Month: June 2024

It’s been a wet spring in Iowa but water utilities in the Des Moines metro area are asking people to save water because of high nitrate levels in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. For […]

More than seven inches of rain have fallen from Sunday night through Monday in the Iowa Great Lakes area, causing lake levels to get near records. Dickinson County Emergency Management implemented a five mile-an-hour rule […]

The State Transportation Commission has approved the five-year transportation improvement plan. DOT systems planner Stuart Anderson says the plan is updated every year, and last year was a difficult one due to inflation. “So that […]

The principal of Perry High School, who was killed while trying to protect students during a shooting rampage at the school in January, is being honored with a posthumous award for his actions. Dan Marburger […]

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is urging Iowans to call in tips to a new cold case unit in her office. “Every victim deserves justice,” Bird said this morning. “Every family deserves answers. No one […]

The Wright County Sheriff’s Department is investigating two deaths at a house in rural Clarion. The deputies located the bodies Monday of a dead male and female inside a residence. After further investigation, the incident […]

Forecasters say parts of northwest Iowa that were drenched on Monday could be in for another soaking today. Meteorologist Ashley Bury, at the National Weather Service, says more dark clouds will be rolling in soon […]

The former superintendent of the Charles City Schools is filing suit against all current members of the district’s school board. In April, then-Superintendent Anne Lundquist was placed on paid administrative leave amid allegations that “raises […]

One of the experts in all things creepy-crawly who helps to run Iowa State University’s Insect Zoo just returned from a four-day road trip exclusively to study the rare, double-brood emergence of cicadas. Ginny Mitchell, […]