Category Archives: Local News
Hinson Praises Iowa's Election System After Supreme Court Ruling
(Washington D.C.) -- Election security has been an issue in the forefront of US politics recently. Today (Monday) the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold a Mississippi law allowing ballots to be coun...
Jun 29, 2026
Atlantic Area Chamber Announces Community Concert at Sunnyside Park
(Atlantic) The Atlantic Area Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Atlantic High School Smackdown Committee, City of Atlantic Parks & Recreation, and the Atlantic Fire Department, is please...
Jun 29, 2026
Summer Bugs Are Hatching a Little Late in Iowa Because of the Cool Spring, but They're Coming
(Des Moines, IA) -- This is praying mantis maternity season. People are posting photos of babies hatching in their gardens, often by the hundreds. "Not all of them will survive, though, so only a smal...
Jun 29, 2026
Guthrie County Sheriff's Office Reports Two Rollover Accidents, No Injuries
(Guthrie Co.) The Guthrie County Sheriff's Office responded to two rollover accidents over the past week. On Monday, June 22, at approximately 12:47 p.m., 30-year-old Johnny Lawrence, of Perry, was dr...
Jun 29, 2026
Omaha Woman Sentenced to over Four Years in Federal Prison for Methamphetamine Distribution
(Council Bluffs) An Omaha woman was sentenced on Friday to 48 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. According to public court documents and evidence presented at sentencing, Su...
Jun 29, 2026
Nebraska Man Arrested for OWI in Montgomery County
(Montgomery Co.) A Nebraska man was arrested for Operating While Intoxicated 1st Offense. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office says 34-year-old Anesu Bushu, of Elkhorn, Nebraska, was arrested at 1:1...
Jun 29, 2026
State Headlines: Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut by 22%; Fourth of July DUI Crackdown Begins; Police Continue Search for Jodi Huisentruit; Greg Abel Becomes U.S. Citizen
Iowa Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut 22% By 2032 (Des Moines, IA) -- Iowans who depend on Social Security face benefit cuts by as much as 22 percent by 2032. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa ...
Jun 29, 2026
Experts see potential for Iowa hydrogen, but need funding and data sharing
(Iowa Capital Dispatch) Hidden in Iowa's bedrock could be resources with the potential to launch a lucrative, clean energy economy in the state, but researchers say state actions and corporate interes...
Jun 29, 2026
DNR to Study Blue Catfish in Iowa Lakes
(Iowa) The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will begin a research project on blue catfish in Iowa lakes on July 1. John Lorenzen, Fisheries Biologist, said blue catfish have the potential to grow ...
Jun 29, 2026
TSA Fourth Of July Air Travel Expectations
(Springfield, VA) -- TSA is bracing to screen nearly 19-million air travelers across the Fourth of July holiday period. A TSA senior official says "security checkpoints are fully staffed and prepared ...
Jun 29, 2026
