Category Archives: Local News
Senator Tom Shipley on Key Legislative Updates for Iowa District #9
(Nodaway) Iowa District #9 Senator Tom Shipley reports that the Senate is working on an important bill, SSB 1135, which focuses on early childhood education and care. Shipley highlights that this legi...
Feb 25, 2025
Union County Woman Faces a Laundry List of Drug-Related Charges
(Creston) Creston Police arrested 34-year-old Yasmin Rae Banda of Creston on multiple drug charges. Police took Banda into custody at Spruce and Prairie and charged her with Intent to Manufacture/Deli...
Feb 25, 2025
Montgomery County Man Arrested on Drug Charges
(Red Oak) Red Oak Police arrested 48-year-old Richard Allen Straw of Red Oak early this morning in the 100 block of W. Valley Street for Possession with Intent to Distribute less than five grams of Me...
Feb 25, 2025
Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce Reports Two Field Fires on Monday
(Red Oak) Red Oak Fire Chief John Bruce reported two field fires on Monday. The Elliott Fire Department, Grant Fire Department, Red Oak Fire Department, and Montgomery County Emergency Management Agen...
Feb 25, 2025
Cass County Woman Arrested on FTA on Drug-Related Charge
(Red Oak) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office reports the arrest of 43-year-old Heather Loreen Butler of Griswold on Monday. Deputies took Butler into custody on a charge of Failure to Appear on a ...
Feb 25, 2025
Canada Takes Steps to Prepare for Bird Flu
(Undated) The Canadian government has purchased 500,000 human vaccine doses of the H5N1 bird flu strain to ensure that Canada is ready for such a health threat. Canada had it's first reported domestic...
Feb 25, 2025
First-Time Home Buyers Need to Make $110k Per Year to Buy Starter Home
(Undated) -- Buying a home in America is not cheap, especially for first-time homebuyers. Bankrate analyst Jeff Ostrowski says the national median price for a starter home is 400-thousand dollars. "If...
Feb 25, 2025
Bill would strip state funds from public libraries based on association membership
(Des Moines) Lawmakers in the Iowa House gave initial approval Monday to a bill that would strip state aid from public libraries that are "dues-paying members" of a state or national nonprofit organiz...
Feb 24, 2025
Protesters rally against move to remove gender identity from Iowa Civil Rights Act
(Des Moines) Hundreds protested in the halls of the Iowa State Capitol Monday as a subcommittee advanced legislation to remove gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. Hous...
Feb 24, 2025
Cass County Sheriff's Report
(Cass Co) The Cass County Sheriff's Office arrested two people on drug charges and two people for OWI. Gene Christopher Reed, 51, of Atlantic, on February 17th for Possession of a Controlled Substance...
Feb 24, 2025
