Category Archives: Local News
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
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
Arctic Blast Set to Hit the Area as Weekend Warmth Gives Way to Cold and Light Snow
(Des Moines) Enjoy the weekend weather, because it is about to change. Brooke Hagenhoff, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines, says an Arctic Blast is heading this way. "The...
Dec 27, 2025
Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department reports two arrests. Police arrested 39-year-old Thomas James Blobaum of Creston on Wednesday for Domestic Abuse. Blobaum was taken to Union County Jail. Bail w...
Dec 26, 2025
Trump administration to garnish wages for defaulted student loans
(Article written by Shauneen Miranda Iowa Capital Dispatch) (Washington, D.C.) President Donald Trump's administration will start garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers in default beginning ea...
Dec 26, 2025
