Category Archives: Local News

(Undated) The end of daylight-saving time goes into effect at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday. Iowans will set their clocks back one hour. Under the current daylight-saving period, most Americans lose an hour of ...

(Lewis) Trapping season starts today and runs through February 28th. John Lorenzen, a Fisheries Biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, appears on the weekly DNR Show and says the Bea...

(Atlantic) The Atlantic Fire Department was called to a house fire at 601 E. 6th Street at 4:59 p.m. Friday. Atlantic Fire Chief Tom Cappel said upon arriving to the scene they had a working house fir...

(Ames) One person died and another was injured following a head-on collision in Ames Thursday evening. The Iowa State Patrol says 67-year-old John Husted Berg, of Ames, was driving a 2003 Buick Rendez...

(Toledo) A woman who stole over $450,000 from a family-owned business was sentenced Wednesday to two years in federal prison. Leann Marie Rouse, age 51, from Toledo, received the prison term after a M...

(Atlantic) The Atlantic Area Chamber's Annual Scrooge Contest is back for November, continuing a tradition that began in 2002 when Eleanor Hoover founded the event. Since Hoover's passing, Jackie Samp...

(Council Bluffs) The man convicted of assaulting a former U.S. Arizona Senator in Council Bluffs is set to spend 360 days in jail. Martha McSally says she was running along the Missouri River when a m...

(Des Moines) The A-C-L-U of Iowa asks a federal judge to block a list the Iowa Secretary of State obtained. The list is of more than two thousand potential non-citizens who have either voted or are re...

(Johnston, IA) -- The Iowa election security center at Camp Dodge will be up and running this coming Tuesday. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, at his annual press conference on election security at ...

(Area) At the request of all Fire Chiefs, the Open Burn Ban for Montgomery County has been lifted effective immediately. -The Burn Ban is Shelby County has also been lifted