Category Archives: Local News

(Shelby Co.) The Shelby County Board of Supervisors this (Tuesday) morning approved a beaver bounty. According to the meeting minutes, that board considered the expenditure of the budgeted $6,000 to b...

(Audubon) The Audubon Rec Center, which opened in 2018, does not include a full sized gym. Soon, it will. The Audubon Recreation Foundation was recently awarded a Community Attraction and Tourism Gran...

(Atlantic) The Atlantic Fire Department responded to the report of smoke coming from the back of a residence at 304 Hazel Street just before 11:00 this morning. Atlantic Fire Chief Tom Cappel... Cappe...

(Shelby Co.) The Shelby County Sheriff's Office reports nine arrests between August 4th and August 30th. Brett Michael Thompson, age 39, of Council Bluffs, was arrested August 4th on a Shelby County W...

(Creston) Creston Police report two arrests and two break-ins. The Smoke Shop at 311 West Adams Street reported a break-in. The perpetrator(s) broke the front window of the business and stole multiple...

(Hamburg, IA) -- The first state-funded charters approved under a law passed in 2021 are starting classes this fall. Choice Charter School is an online program aimed at helping students who have dropp...

(Hampton, IA) -- Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a train derailment early Monday near Hampton. Union Pacific says around 40 train cars derailed on a bridge over a creek, and some as...

(Greenfield) A Former Adair County man is found guilty of Homicide by Vehicle and Child Endangerment in Adair County District Court. The verdict handed down by a jury on September 1 convicted Elijah D...

(Red Oak) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested Robert Charles Harvey II on a warrant charging him with failure to appear for a pre-trial conference. Authorities located Harvey II in Page Co...

(Webster City, IA) -- State Climatologist, Justin Glisan, says June, July and August have been warmer and drier than normal for the last three years. Glisan says the La Nina weather pattern is to blam...