Month: November 2024

A 55 year old man serving a life prison sentence for shooting his wife to death in their central Iowa home has died in state custody. In April of 2014, Vallerie Cory’s co-workers at the […]

The red kettles are out for the annual holiday giving campaign for the Salvation Army. Spokesperson Tamyra  Harrison of the Des Moines Salvation Army says they have volunteers out ringing bells across central Iowa. “We […]

Pella Police arrested a male Middle School student this morning after he assaulted multiple students. Police Chief Shane McSheehy held a news conference to explain what happened. “Initial investigation determined that a 14-year-old student at […]

Judges on a federal appeals court in Omaha today quizzed an attorney representing two Iowa counties and the attorney for Summit Carbon Solutions, which is asking the court to nullify pipeline zoning ordinances. An attorney […]

An Iowa nonprofit that offers social services to youth statewide will open an addiction treatment facility near Ames next month. Youth and Shelter Services, known as YSS, will run a residential treatment program, as well […]

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he’s chosen an Iowan to be U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Matt Whitaker was the acting U.S. Attorney General for three months during Trump’s first term in office. During a September […]

Roadways and airports have been crowded during the holiday periods all through this year and it looks like that is not going to ease up next week for Thanksgiving. AAA Iowa spokesman, Brian Ortner says […]

The U.S. Navy submarine that’s named after the state of Iowa is back at port in Connecticut after its first test drives — and test dives — in the Atlantic Ocean. Mat Tanner, a retired […]

Authorities in Iowa and two neighboring states are still sorting out the details of a violent, deadly crash that shut down Interstate-29 in northwest Missouri on Sunday. It all began as a pursuit by Nebraska […]

Federal regulators say the Iowa Department of Natural Resources should add half a dozen river segments to the state’s 2024 list of impaired waterways. The EPA says nitrate levels in sections of the Cedar, Des […]

Officials are offering advice to Armstrong, the small northwest Iowa town where five officials were accused of bilking Armstrong out of thousands of dollars and destroying financial records. State Auditor Rob Sand has issued a […]

An Iowa inmate who has spent almost 50 years behind bars for a quadruple murder is hoping for another look at his case for what is claimed to be a new legal development. Jerry Mark […]

A new report shows a state pilot program raised the number of children who could enroll in childcare services in select communities, which improved wages and benefits for local childcare workers. The “Iowa Childcare Solutions […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says the second administration of President Donald Trump will be different from the first. “What I see in the second Trump administration is the experience that was taken from the first […]

Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is retiring from his latest post as president of the World Food Prize. Branstad, the nation’s longest serving governor, resigned in 2017 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China. He […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says the allegations swirling around President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general seem like a replay of what happened in 2018 to one of Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominees. Grassley, a Republican, […]

A Drake University study on homeless families in central Iowa finds a major need for more emergency family shelters. Researchers followed ten families living in shelters across the Des Moines metro last year as they […]

A New York Times best-selling author and humorist is making stops in two Iowa libraries this week. Michael Perry grew up on a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin and says he never set out to […]

The Iowa Natural Resources Commission approved construction projects in Franklin, Cerro Gordo, and Poweshiek County at their recent meeting. Travis Baker of the DNR says one of the projects is replacing the lagoon wastewater treatment […]