Category Archives: Local News

(Aurelia, IA) - Multiple fire departments helped put out a silo fire in rural Aurelia on Friday night. The Aurelia Fire Department was dispatched around 8:30 p.m. with reports of cornstalk bales on fi...

(Des Moines, IA) - Iowa prison officials and union leaders are warning the state's correctional system may not be prepared for a sharp rise in inmates under a new habitual offender law. This law doubl...

(Iowa Capital Dispatch) Crawford County Supervisor Dave Muhlbauer was officially nominated and approved Saturday at the Iowa Democratic Party state convention as State Auditor Rob Sand's running mate ...

(Iowa Capital Dispatch) Republican leaders emphasized party unity Saturday at the Iowa Republican State Convention - especially emphasizing the need to rally behind Zach Lahn as the GOP nominee for Io...

(Adair Co.) Authorities in Adair County report three arrests and one citation. The Stuart Police Department arrested Jeremiah Ray Janes, 45, of Indianola, on June 12th for Eluding and Reckless Driving...

(NAFB) A new Social Security Trustees Report shows that Social Security trust funds are expected to be depleted in 2034. The new projection means Congress needs to act to close the remaining shortfall...

(Corning) The Adams County Secondary Roads Department is reporting a washed culvert on 250th Street east of Willow Avenue. The work on this culvert begins today.    

(NAFB) The New World screwworm has crossed the border from Mexico to Texas and New Mexico, Teresa Steckly, a beef cattle specialist with the University of Illinois, says cattle producers in the Midwes...

(Audubon) The Audubon County Secondary Roads Department announced that 170th Street from Jay Avenue to Kingsbird Avenue will be closed to through traffic for a bridge replacement project. Authorities ...

(Omaha/Valley) The National Weather Service in Omaha,/Valley Nebraska, reports five tornadoes swept through portions of southwest Iowa on June 11. Storms formed over south-central Nebraska in the earl...