Category Archives: Local News

(Lewis) Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Biologist John Lorenzen reports the Crappie spawning season is nearly complete. During Saturday's DNR report on KSOM, Lorenzen provided updates o...

(Des Moines) The National Weather Service calls says storm chances are forecast for Sunday night into early Monday, Monday afternoon, and Monday evening. Widespread rainfall of one-to-two inches are p...

(Floyd County) One person died in a two-vehicle crash on Friday in Floyd County. The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened at 10:10 p.m. Friday at the Highway 14 and County Highway CR-B60 inter...

(Des Moines) According to this week's U.S. drought report, over half of Iowa counties are experiencing at least some drought. Fifty-three percent sit in the abnormally dry category, while seventeen pe...

(Atlantic) Jack and Jill has been providing preschool for the Atlantic area for over 70-years, and 36-four-year-olds recently celebrated their graduation at the St. Paul Lutheran Church marking anothe...

(Red Oak) The Red Oak Police Department arrested 32-year-old Cody Dean Johnson, of Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday in the 100 block of E Coolbaugh Street for Disorderly Conduct. Johnson was transported to ...

(Des Moines, IA) -- A federal judge says Iowa schools can restrict instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation up until the sixth grade. The ruling states teachers are not allowed to provide...

(Audubon Co) In response to ongoing water service disruptions, Audubon County Emergency Management has scheduled three water distribution sites for today, May 16, to assist residents affected by outag...

(Des Moines) The Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI) and MidWestOne Bank announced the top eight products moving on in the 2025 Coolest Thing Made in Iowa contest. One of these items is ma...

(Greenfield) The Adair County Sheriff's Office has received at least five reports regarding a phone scam in which the caller falsely claims to represent the Sheriff's Office, possibly even impersonati...