State News

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is touring northwest Iowa communities affected by floodwaters today. Her first stop was in Hawarden, which has lost its water and sewer plants and some 60 residents spent Sunday night in […]

A Dewitt woman is sentenced to 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to taking funds from a local daycare that receives federal funding. Fifty-six-year-old Mindy Chapman was director of the Creative Learning Center […]

Iowa wide receiver Kaleb Brown was arrested for Operating While Under the Influence in Iowa City early Sunday morning. The junior from Chicago, caught 22 passes for 215 yards and a touchdown in 11 games […]

Almost a thousand northwest Iowans spent part of the weekend in one of a half-dozen American Red Cross shelters after flooding forced them to evacuate their homes. Emily Holley, spokeswoman for the Nebraska-Iowa region of […]

The Big Sioux River crested in Sioux City this morning at 45 feet. City Fire Marshal Mark Aesoph says that’s over seven feet higher than the previous record. “It’s just been difficult to predict what’s […]

Class 4A 1. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (28-2), LW #1 2. Dallas Center-Grimes (27-1), LW #3 3. Iowa City High (27-4), LW #5 4. Ankeny Centennial (21-6), LW #2 5. Johnston (23-5), LW #4 6. Linn-Mar […]

Forecasters say some areas of northwest Iowa that are already seeing record flooding may get more rain late today and tonight. Making a bad situation even worse, National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Lee says the […]

Residents in Sioux City’s Riverside neighborhood have been advised to prepare to evacuate due to major flooding. The Tyson Events Center is open for those who need a place to shelter. The Missouri River crested […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says foreign adversaries have a proven track record of using apps and websites to secretly collect data from Americans, and he’s introducing legislation that aims to thwart such efforts. Grassley, a […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is calling flood related losses in northwest Iowa “staggering” and she is asking for a presidential disaster declaration to trigger federal aid for flood victims. During a brief Sunday afternoon, Governor Reynolds […]

National Weather Service forecasters says some river levels in northwest Iowa will crest above levels set during the historic flood of 1993. Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday hundreds of Rock Valley residents were ordered to […]

Travel is not advised in six northwest Iowa counties due to flooded roads and the National Weather Service warns there is a slight risk of excessive rainfall again today in portions of northern and eastern […]

An Iowa trucker who went missing and was later found dead in Sac County died from hypothermia related to acute meth intoxication. Sac County Attorney Ben Smith issued a statement that says the state medical […]

There are flood warnings issued in far northwest Iowa as water levels continue to rise after eight inches of rain fell last night. Rock Valley Mayor Kevin Van Otterloo is closely monitoring the Rock River […]

At least four Iowa mayors are attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors, underway in Kansas City through Sunday. The non-partisan gathering of 200-plus mayors is open to those from communities with populations of 30,000 or […]

The Democratic Party in a southwest Iowa county is in the process of nominating a Republican for one of the party’s slots on the November ballot. Republican Chris Clark of Sidney is chairman of the […]

Bird flu has hit eight dairy cattle herds in northwest Iowa this year, and now a third poultry flock. Ag officials said Thursday the virus is confirmed in a commercial turkey flock with over 46,000 […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is calling on the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to immediately resign. The agency protects depositors from losses if a bank or savings and loan fails. Ernst said an […]

A procession that’s part of a Catholic National Eucharistic Pilgrimage will pass through Iowa with stops at churches in the Des Moines Diocese. Father Jacob Epstein of the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Council Bluffs […]

There’s still no drought in Iowa, but the number of counties where the soil is considered abnormally dry has almost doubled in the past week, bouncing from around 16 counties to nearly 31, according to […]