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Two weeks after being closed following an outbreak of COVID-19, the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Waterloo is set to reopen. Company officials say Tyson’s largest pork processing facility will resume limited operations on Thursday. […]

As his college career ends, an Iowa State University architecture major is being kept very busy, right up to graduation day, cranking out personal protective equipment, or PPE, for area hospitals and front-line medical workers. […]

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Iowa on Friday and Governor Kim Reynolds is flying to D.C. today for a meeting with President Trump, Pence and others at the White House. “I will be going […]

One of the country’s largest Latino organizations is calling for a boycott of processed meat, due to outbreaks of the coronavirus at meat packing plants. The League of United Latin American Citizens — also known […]

Iowa’s weather has turned cold and rainy after a pleasant weekend, reflective of the see-saw back-and-forth of snowy versus sunny days we experienced during much of April. State climatologist Justin Glisan says last month featured […]

A group of Attorneys General from 11 states — including Iowa — are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to start a federal investigation into suspected national price-fixing by meatpackers in the cattle industry. Iowa […]

Iowa schools will split $71.6 million in new federal funding, to help cover costs related to the pandemic. Iowa Department of Education director Ann Lebo says schools may start applying for the grants today. “Every […]

Officials have now confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks at four Iowa meat packing facilities. More than 700 of the employees at Tyson’s plant in Perry — that’s 58 percent of the workforce — have tested positive for […]

Dyersville’s Summer Farm Toy Show that is held every year on the first weekend in June has been canceled. Thousands of people usually attend the event and National Farm Toy Museum Director Amanda Schwartz says […]

At 86 years old, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley is among the older, more vulnerable Iowans who are supposed to be especially careful during the coronavirus pandemic. Grassley joined his colleagues in the U.S. Capitol on […]