State News

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has opened a Disaster Recovery Center in Greenfield, where at least 150 homes were heavily damaged or destroyed in last week’s tornado. FEMA spokesman John Mills spoke with Radio Iowa […]

President Biden has approved federal disaster assistance for residents and businesses in four counties hit by Tuesday’s tornadoes. Governor Kim Reynolds made the request yesterday, noting over 200 homes had been severely damaged or destroyed […]

A north Iowa man has been found guilty of murdering a retired grocer more than a decade after the crime. A Chickasaw County jury has found 51-year-old Randy Patrie guilty of killing 70-year-old Carl Gallmeyer […]

Tornado sirens wailed this morning in several central and eastern Iowa counties as severe storms rolled across the state. In Hamilton County, southbound traffic is being detoured off of Interstate 35 due to several semis […]

Memorial Day weekend is predicted to be one of the busiest travel holidays in many years, and law enforcement is already putting a stronger presence on Iowa’s roads. State trooper Paul Gardner, who’s based in […]

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 […]