Category Archives: Local News
News from Western Iowa.

USTA Presents $40,000 Check to Atlantic School District's Tennis Courts Project
(Atlantic) On Saturday afternoon, Missouri Valley-USTA Executive Director Mary Buschmann and Missouri Valley-USTA Tennis Service Representative John Terpkosh presented the Atlantic Community School Di...
Tom Robinson Oct 23, 2021

Griswold School Board Enhances Early Retirement Policy
(Griswold) The Griswold School Board added an extra financial incentive to the district's early retirement policy. The board offers the early retirement plan yearly, and the policy allows up to five p...
Tom Robinson Oct 23, 2021

Landus Acquires Grain Elevator in Atlantic, Iowa
(Ames, Iowa) Landus, Iowa's largest farmer-owned grain cooperative, announced today the acquisition of a 3.4-million-bushel grain elevator in Atlantic, Iowa. Pipeline Foods most recently operated the ...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021

Red Oak House Fire
(Red Oak) Red Oak Firefighters on Thursday morning battled a house fire. Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce says the call went out at 9:20 a.m. at 300 Market Street. The first Fire Engine arrived three min...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021

Council Bluffs Police investigating a shooting death; searching for a person of interest
(Council Bluffs) The Council Bluffs Police Department is investigating a shooting death. Council Bluffs Police and EMS were called to 1200 East Washington Street at 3:42 a.m. today (Friday) for a repo...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021
Mills County Sheriff's Report
(Mills Co.) The Mills County Sheriff's Office arrested Devin Michael Ramirez, 24, of Bellevue, Nebraska, on Thursday for Possession of a Controlled Substance. Bond was set at $1,000. The Sheriff's Off...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021

Atlantic Rising Trivia Night a Success
(Atlantic) Atlantic Rising hosted a Trivia Night at the Cass County Community Center Friday, October 15th. Atlantic Rising raised funds for the Christmas Box Program that supplies food boxes to nomina...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021

Cass County Sheriff's Report
(Cass Co.) The Cass County Sheriff's Office reports one arrest and an accident. On Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office arrested David Allen Coenen, 36, of Lewis, on a Pottawattamie County warrant for Fail...
Mandy Billings Oct 22, 2021
Freezing Patchy Fog and Freeze Warning
(Area) The National Weather Service advises motorists that patchy fog has developed early this morning and will persist through the morning hours. Visibility is reduced to under one mile and, in a few...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021
Iowans Asked to Watch For Rare Rabbit Disease
(Undated) The Iowa D-N-R is asking everyone to be on the lookout for rabbit hemorrhagic disease. The disease quickly kills domestic and wild rabbits and is confirmed in two states that border Iowa and...
Tom Robinson Oct 22, 2021







