Category Archives: Local News
Vehicle Crashes Through Entrance At Hampton-Dumont High School
(Hampton, Iowa) Hampton-Dumont High School has significant damage to the school cafeteria and front entrance. A car crashed through the area on Saturday night, but no one was injured. Officials are tr...
Dec 29, 2025
Firefighters Respond to Structure Fire in Red Oak
(Red Oak) Montgomery County Communications at 5:09 a.m. on Sunday dispatched the Red Oak Fire Department to 911 N 4th Street for a reported detached garage fully engulfed in flames. According to Red O...
Dec 28, 2025
Teen Drug And Alcohol Use Continues To Decline
(Undated) -- The number of teenagers using drugs and alcohol remains at historic lows following a drop in usage during the coronavirus pandemic. A survey by the University of Michigan Institute for So...
Dec 28, 2025
Ethanol Groups Continue Pushing for Year-Round Ethanol
(NAFB) The American Coalition for Ethanol is actively engaging the Environmental Protection Agency on the Renewable Fuel Standard, seeking final volumes and the reallocation of waived gallons to preve...
Dec 28, 2025
Iowa Gas Prices Fall Again as Crude Oil Posts Weekly Gains
(Des Moines) Gasoline prices across Iowa continued to decline this week, even as crude oil prices posted modest gains. According to AAA, the average price for regular unleaded gasoline in Iowa fell 6 ...
Dec 28, 2025
Judge pauses Summit opponents' lawsuit while proposed permit changes proceed
(Article and photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) (Des Moines) The Iowa Utilities Commission will have to decide whether Summit Carbon Solutions can change the ending destination for its carbon ...
Dec 28, 2025
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
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
