Category Archives: Local News
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Community Discussion at Nishna Valley Family YMCA Postponed
(Atlantic) Due to the latest governor's proclamation and the rising cases of Covid-19 in Cass County the Nishna Valley Family YMCA Staff and Board of Directors has decided to postpone the "Community D...
Western Iowa Today Nov 11, 2020
Verdict this week for man accused of killing grandmother
ONAWA, Iowa (AP) - A judge in western Iowa says he will announce a verdict Friday in the case of a man accused of killing his grandmother in 2018. Eliot Stowe is charged with first-degree murder for t...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
Iowa posts fifth day of more than 4,000 new virus cases
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa coronavirus trends continue to worsen as increasing numbers of Iowans were hospitalized with the virus, further stressing hospitals and health care workers as they try to ...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department arrested two women on warrants. Chelsey Kile, 31, was arrested Tuesday at the Law Enforcement Center on a Union County warrant for the charge of Failure to Appe...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
EPA Announces Cleanup Plan for Superfund Site in Atlantic
(Lenexa, Kan.) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed the Record of Decision (ROD) for the PCE Former Dry Cleaner Superfund Site at 1205 E. 7th Street in Atlantic, Iowa. The ROD o...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
Restrictions return at Clarinda Police Department
(Clarinda) Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers says due to increasing COVID cases in the area the police department will be restricting access to their facility spaces effective today (November 11). ...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
Cass County Supervisors Canvass the November 3rd General Election
(Atlantic) The Cass County Board of Supervisors met Tuesday morning to serve as Board of Canvassers to proceed with the official canvass of the November 3, 2020 General Election. After examination of ...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
Less than six percent of Iowa schools have submitted waivers to move to online school
(Des Moines) At her press conference on Tuesday, Governor Kim Reynolds said in 88 of Iowa's 99 counties the rolling 14 day average positivity rate is above 15-percent. A 15-percent positivity rate is ...
Mandy Billings Nov 11, 2020
Additional COVID-19 Death Confirmed in Mills County
(Glenwood) Mills County Public Health along with Mills County Emergency Management Agency announced an additional death associated with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the county today. The individual...
Western Iowa Today Nov 10, 2020
Guthrie County Board of Supervisors hear various departmental reports
(Guthrie Center) A new nurse and intern have been hired in Guthrie County by the Health Services Director to help with Covid mitigation. Health Services Director Jotham Arber presented payroll change ...
Western Iowa Today Nov 10, 2020