Iowans who have loved ones in central Florida are being encouraged to give blood in their honor, as hospitals in that region are overwhelmed following Wednesday night’s strike by Hurricane Milton. Shay Willis, at LifeServe […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says she’s willing to return to Washington to approve more funding for FEMA, but Ernst says there’s been no request from the agency for more money. “These folks are facing horrible, […]

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has gone to court to try to block a new federal rule on staffing at long term care facilities that she says will force the “mass shutdown” of nursing homes […]

Reports say at least three-million customers in central Florida are without power after Hurricane Milton slammed ashore last night, bringing heavy rain, flooding and multiple tornadoes. Des Moines-based MidAmerican Energy has a 70-member disaster response […]

Forecasters say the summer-like weather will have a last hurrah today and tomorrow before we fall headlong into the more seasonable chill of autumn, with a frost and freeze likely early next week. Meteorologist Craig […]

The Iowa Department of Transportation has awarded the first round of funding for the National Electric Vehicles Infrastructure program to create a network of electric vehicle charging stations. The DOT’s Deb Arp says the federal […]

A farmer who’s a spokesman for South Dakota landowners who oppose the Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline says his state is “the firewall” that could stop the project. “Summit has nothing in South Dakota at this […]

Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is defending her social media comments that Americans hit by Hurricane Helene were “left in the lurch” because FEMA funding was used for illegal immigration. The Administration and FEMA have pushed […]

Ryan Melton, the Democrat running against Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra, says the U.S. should support Israel’s defense and its response to the October 7 attacks, but there should be limits. “Hamas is horrible. Everything that […]

More than 30 bikers and residents recently came together to cut the ribbon on the completed paving of the final stretch of the Cedar Valley Nature Trail. It comes on the 40-year anniversary of the […]