A compromise plan to let all-terrain vehicles travel on more county and state highways has cleared the Iowa House. Representative Bobby Kaufmann of Wilton said new safety measures are incorporated in his original plan. “At […]
Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.7% in January, which was down from the revised December rate of 3.9%. Iowa Workforce Development says the leisure and hospitality industries added the most jobs in January — up […]
A plan to revamp Iowa’s “Bottle Bill” has cleared its first hurdle in the Iowa Senate and key lawmakers vow this is the year they’ll approve changes in the system for redeeming the nickel deposits […]
State Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald says he supports withdrawing any state investments in Russian companies, but it’s difficult to do today given the status of Russia’s economy. “The ruble has crashed and the stock market in […]
Regional air carrier SkyWest has announced they are planning to pull their commercial service out of Sioux City, Mason City, and Fort Dodge. Assistant city manager Mike Collett oversees the Sioux Gateway Airport and says […]
Democrats are considering a plan that could bump the Iowa Caucuses out of the first-in-the-nation position — and the party will be hosting three forums to give Democrats across the country a chance to weigh […]
A Girl Scout troop in Council Bluffs is turning cookie sales into opportunities for girls who are homeless. The Micah House Homeless Shelter sponsors a troop that’s sold more than 4,000 boxes of cookies so […]
It appears the long-running drought in western Iowa will continue running well into 2022 as experts predict below-normal flows for the Missouri River basin this spring and summer. Doug Kluck, the Central Region climate service […]
State and federal officials have confirmed another outbreak of bird flu, this time in a commercial flock of egg-laying chickens. According to an announcement from the Iowa Department of Agriculture, the chickens that contracted the […]
Officials say three people are injured after a train hit a semi and derailed in Denison. Tim Zenk, the assistant fire chief for the Denison Fire Department, said the truck carrying weights for a crane […]
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