Webster County town to lose its only grocery store
After two dozen years in business, a small Webster County grocery store town announced Thursday it’s closing its doors. The store’s board of directors said that despite cutting costs, ordering […]
The challenges of addressing veterinary shortages
The dean of Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine says a national shortage of veterinarians continues to impact rural communities. Dr. Bret Marsh says an increase in animals needing care and […]
“Gustnadoes” Spotted in Northwest Iowa
Areas of Northwest Iowa experienced storm damage Wednesday afternoon. Kyle Weisser at the National Weather Service Sioux Falls office says Sibley and Rock Rapids were two of the hardest hit […]
Lawn watering is now banned for more than a half-million central Iowans
Due to high nitrate levels from farm chemical runoff, the utility that supplies water to 600-thousand residential and commercial customers in the Des Moines area is imposing an immediate ban […]
Winds up to 80 mph, ‘gustinadoes’ in northern Iowa storm
Wednesday’s storm that hit Sibley and other areas of northwest Iowa caused damage to crops, trees, buildings and power lines, but Peter Rodgers, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service […]
Seasonal warmth, heat & rainfall to continue across most of the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures and rainfall across most of the country. Cooler-than-normal conditions will be confined to the […]
Seasonal warmth except northern areas; welcome rains build across parts of the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, a band of showers stretches from the Dakotas into the Great Lakes region. Cool weather accompanying and trailing the rain is temporarily slowing fieldwork and crop […]
Seasonal warmth except far northern areas; welcome rains build across parts of the Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, widespread showers are slowing late-season planting efforts but maintaining mostly abundant moisture reserves for corn and soybeans. On June 8, more than two-thirds of both crops—71% […]
Juneteenth celebrations start this weekend in eastern Iowa
The African American Museum of Iowa is hosting its annual Juneteenth Festival in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. Jacqueline Hunter, the museum’s executive director, says it’s an event designed around remembrance […]
Donors save jobs of AmeriCorps workers in Davenport
Fundraising efforts in eastern Iowa will allow some AmeriCorps members to continue working through the summer, after the federal money for the program was eliminated by DOGE earlier this year. […]