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Iowans are asked to be on the lookout for groups of monarch butterflies that might be congregating in our trees and yards as the vital, orange-and-black insects begin to make the long journey south to Mexico for the winter. Mykayla Hagaman, program specialist at the Ames-based Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, says now is the time […]
Missouri Valley in western Iowa is dealing with the environmental fallout of a Cold War missile site that was deactivated more than 60 years ago. A cleaning solvent called trichloroethene or TCE seeped into the groundwater and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started studying solutions in 2012. The process could take two more years […]
The two candidates running to replace Iowa’s Fourth District Congressman Randy Feenstra in the U.S. House have taken a photo together, holding up the American flag. It happened at the Woodbury County Fair. Chris McGowan was in the Republican Party’s booth in Moville and Dave Dawson was nearby in the Democratic Party’s booth. McGowan said […]
Some residents got unruly before a very close vote last night on a hot-button topic in northwest Iowa. The Salix city council voted three-to-two against enacting a one-year moratorium on data center development. Those who oppose data centers got vocal and Salix Mayor Kevin Nelson had to call for police officers to bring order. No […]
More than 1000 Iowa State Fairgoers have acquired first-hand knowledge about a new requirement for high school seniors in Iowa. The Alliance for Civic Education of Iowa has a booth at the state fair, with two tablets that generate 20 randomly selected questions about civics. “People can take a quiz of questions that are on […]
Iowans who’ve fallen victim to a scam in the past need to keep their guard up and be very watchful for a repeat. Lisa Schiller, with Better Business Bureau, says scammers will share lists of their victims in order to see if someone who’s been duped before will take the bait a second time. “So […]
U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is among 10 Trump Administration officials who’ve been in Iowa the past nine days, but Blanche says he visited the State Fair at Senator Chuck Grassley’s invitation. “I travel all over the country constantly talking to Americans about whatever’s important. I saw an influx of cabinet officials a few weeks […]
The state unemployment rate held at 3.2% for the third month in a row in July. Iowa Workforce Development deputy director Georgia Van Gundy says the labor force participation rate did fall two tenths of a percent, which she attributed to two things. “More retirements occurring and then also some later than normal seasonal layoffs […]
A few thousand people are being recognized at the Iowa State Fair today for having a farm in the family for over 100 years. The Century Farm program was launched at the 1976 Iowa State Fair and 5000 farms that had been in the same family since 1876 or earlier were recognized. Iowa Ag Secretary […]
Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently visited southeast Iowa, touring abandoned industrial sites that are being cleaned up using eight-and-a-half million dollars in federal brownfields grants. Jim Macy, regional administrator for the EPA region that covers Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, says the grants awarded to Keokuk add up to the largest pool […]
The Democrat running against Iowa’s top election official says Republican Paul Pate, Iowa’s Secretary of State, shouldn’t have turned over voter registration lists to the federal government. In the spring of 2025, the U-S Department of Justice asked states for the driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of registered voters and Pate said […]
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” President Trump signed a year ago is one of the flash points in Iowa’s third congressional district race. The measure eliminated taxes on overtime and tips and preserved the income tax cuts Trump approved in 2017. Republican Congressman Zach Nunn of Ankeny, who’s running for re-election this year, said it […]
Leaders of the school district in Spirit Lake are unveiling plans for an ambitious renovation project which they estimate would cost nearly $70-million. Superintendent David Smith says the project would address aging infrastructure and long-standing maintenance needs. “We have numerous areas where we need brand new HVAC,” Smith says. “We need new lights. We need […]
Buena Vista County authorities have arrested a local business owner on a harassment charge after a weekend incident at a tavern. According to online court documents and a criminal complaint filed Sunday, 43-year-old Ryan Dean Diischer of Aurelia, the owner of Century Bar in Alta, was booked after a Buena Vista County Sheriff’s deputy documented […]
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is taking public comments on a proposed rule change that would give in-state hunters the first shot at pheasants and other game over out-of-state hunters on public lands. The DNR’s Chris Ensminger says it’s something they’ve been working on since 2021. “We have some places like near the borders […]
Indianola is the latest Iowa town to switch off its Flock cameras, automated license plate readers which are prompting protests across the nation about privacy and security. Indianola Police Lieutenant Tye Sparks says the Warren County town, 17 miles south of Des Moines, has been using eight of the pole-mounted traffic cameras and they’ve proven […]
