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News from Western Iowa.
Teens Could Drive Up To 50 Miles To Work On Driver's Permit
(Des Moines, IA) -- Proposed changes to school permits would let teenagers drive up to 50 miles away from home or school for work or extracurricular activities. The Iowa Senate passed the bill yesterd...
Mandy Billings Mar 15, 2023
Governor Kim Reynolds' Reorganization Bill Is Ready For House Debate
(Des Moines, IA) -- Governor Kim Reynolds' government reorganization bill is ready for debate in the Iowa House. The nearly 16-hundred page proposal to reduce the number of state agencies from 37 to 1...
Mandy Billings Mar 15, 2023
Sidney man arrested for Child Molestation and other charges
(Fremont Co) The Fremont County Sheriff's Office arrested 44-year-old Dewight Eugene Binau, of Sidney, on Tuesday as a fugitive from justice on a felony warrant out of Newton County, Missouri. On Febr...
Mandy Billings Mar 14, 2023
Atlantic Rotary Club 'Salute to Ag' presentation centers around soil health
(Atlantic) Carbon sequestration was the topic of the Atlantic Rotary Club's Salute to Agriculture program on Tuesday. Soil Health Specialist Ruth Blomquist with the USDA-NRCS Office was the presenter,...
Western Iowa Today Mar 14, 2023

Cass County Supervisors hear presentation from Cass County Committee on Aging
(Cass Co) The Cass County Committee on Aging gave a presentation to the Board of Supervisors this morning. Judy Marnin explained how they operate. Marnin said the other towns also use money for the go...
Mandy Billings Mar 14, 2023
Nebraska man injured in Mills County accident
(Mills Co) A Nebraska man was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Mills County Saturday. The Mills County Sheriff's Office says 66-year-old Scott Sonnenfelt, of Kennard, Nebraska, was driving a 2003 ...
Mandy Billings Mar 14, 2023
Mills County Sheriff's Report
(Mills Co) The Mills County Sheriff's Office arrested two men on warrants. Travis Mitchell Long, 39, of Omaha, Nebraska, was arrested March 9th on a warrant for two counts of Violation of Probation. L...
Mandy Billings Mar 14, 2023

Tax levy rate on the rise in Audubon
(Audubon) April 10th will be the date for a Public Hearing on the the FY24 Budget in the City of Audubon. The property tax levy will be up from last year. "We try to keep it down, but between insuranc...
Western Iowa Today Mar 14, 2023
Temporary Lane Closures on US 59 from US 34 to Iowa 92 begin Monday, March 20
(Creston) The Iowa DOT says if you are driving on U.S. 59 in Mills and Pottawattamie counties in the coming weeks you may notice some construction work taking place on the roadway between U.S. 34 near...
Mandy Billings Mar 14, 2023

Glen Smith, Board Member of Farm Credit Administration, Comments on SVB Collapse
(Atlantic) Friday's collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, the nation's 16th largest bank with around $209 billion in assets at the end of 2022, got the nation's attention when the FDIC seized the banks...
Tom Robinson Mar 14, 2023







