Author Archives: Tom Robinson
Clues To Determining Whether It's Covid Or Flu
(Undated) The holiday season is prime time for getting COVID and influenza, but telling them apart isn't easy. Symptoms are similar, including fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat, head and body pain...
Dec 28, 2025
Ice fishing not advised across much of Iowa
(Des Moines) Iowa's stretch of unseasonably warm temperatures has deteriorated the quality of ice across much of the state south of Iowa Hwy. 3, to the point where any remaining ice is considered unsa...
Dec 27, 2025
DNR Year Looking Back: New State Record Fish
(Lewis) As 2025 wraps up and 2026 nears, DNR Fisheries Biologist John Lorenzen takes a moment to reflect and share some remarkable harvest numbers and state record fish. Lorenzen reports that two new ...
Dec 27, 2025
Atlantic Trojan Basketball Team Aims to Regroup Over Holiday Break
(Atlantic) Atlantic Head Girl's Basketball Coach Dan Varagson and his staff and squad are going to take advantage of the Christmas Holiday break to regroup. The Trojans ended the first portion of the ...
Dec 27, 2025
Record Farmland Sale Reported in Northwest Iowa
(Sioux County) KCAU reports a farmland sale in northwest Iowa has set a new state record for price per acre. Just over 31 acres of farmland northwest of Orange City in Sioux County sold for $1.13 mill...
Dec 27, 2025
Arctic Blast Set to Hit the Area as Weekend Warmth Gives Way to Cold and Light Snow
(Des Moines) Enjoy the weekend weather, because it is about to change. Brooke Hagenhoff, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines, says an Arctic Blast is heading this way. "The...
Dec 27, 2025
Dense Fog Advisory
(Des Moines) The entire state of Iowa is under a Dense Fog Advisory until Noon on Saturday. According to the National Weather Service, visibility is down to one-quarter of a mile or less in some areas...
Dec 26, 2025
Alan Grimm Obituary
Graveside Services for 72-year-old Alan Grimm of Manning will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 2026, at the Manning Cemetery in Manning. Alan died on Thursday, December 25, at Manning Hospit...
Dec 26, 2025
Cash Grain December 26, 2025
Landus Coop - Adair December Corn - 4.13 March Corn - 4.15 December Beans - 9.92 March Beans - 10.00 Landus Coop - Atlantic December Corn - 4.13 March Corn - 4.15 December Beans - 9.92 March Be...
Dec 26, 2025
Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department reports two arrests. Police arrested 39-year-old Thomas James Blobaum of Creston on Wednesday for Domestic Abuse. Blobaum was taken to Union County Jail. Bail w...
Dec 26, 2025
