Five Iowa schools attain National Blue Ribbon status
Five Iowa schools are on the U.S. Department of Education 2024 list of Blue Ribbon Schools. The schools on that list are Alta-Aurelia Middle School, Decorah High School, Nodaway Valley […]
Gowrie man charged in connection to 17 year old girl’s death
A Gowrie man has been charged in connection to the weekend death of a teenager from Farnhamville. The 17-year-old victim’s name has not been released, but the Southeast Valley Community […]
Two rural eastern Iowa communities are focus of new health initiative
A pilot program aims to increase the overall health of residents in the town of Manchester and in Van Buren County. Experts are collecting extensive data on the two eastern […]
Iowa DOT already has tons of salt stockpiled for the winter ahead
Iowa averages between 20 and 40 inches of snowfall every year, and whether the winter ahead will be warmer than normal or cold and brutal, the winter operations administrator of […]
UNI professors publish research on Iowa’s U.S. House districts
Election day is just six weeks away and very few of the 435 races for U.S. House seats are competitive. However, based the amount of advertising alone, two of the […]
Iowa Ag Secretary discusses trade trip to India
Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig is back from a trade trip with the governor and business leaders to India, where he says the delegation met with folks who could be […]
Start of the corn and bean harvest is right in line with average
Warm, dry conditions allowed some farms to get their combines into the fields last week. The U.S.D.A. crop report says farmers were able to harvest 5% of the corn in […]
Man held after body of teen girl found in Calhoun County
The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department says charges are pending after an investigation into a report of a missing juvenile girl Sunday ended up with deputies finding the girl dead this […]
Before the flakes fly, snowplow simulators now in use at Iowa DOT garages
A sort of snowplow driving school is getting underway this week for hundreds of Iowa Department of Transportation workers who will be using those big orange machines to keep our […]
Flooding in Iowa hasn’t had much impact on unemployment claims
Several Iowa cities were swamped with flood waters, but Iowa Workforce Development director Beth Townsend says the flooding didn’t significantly impact unemployment numbers. “We only saw a few hundred claims […]