Category Archives: Local News
News from Western Iowa.

Ethanol Groups Continue Pushing for Year-Round Ethanol
(NAFB) The American Coalition for Ethanol is actively engaging the Environmental Protection Agency on the Renewable Fuel Standard, seeking final volumes and the reallocation of waived gallons to preve...
Tom Robinson Dec 28, 2025

Iowa Gas Prices Fall Again as Crude Oil Posts Weekly Gains
(Des Moines) Gasoline prices across Iowa continued to decline this week, even as crude oil prices posted modest gains. According to AAA, the average price for regular unleaded gasoline in Iowa fell 6 ...
Mandy Billings Dec 28, 2025

Judge pauses Summit opponents' lawsuit while proposed permit changes proceed
(Article and photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) (Des Moines) The Iowa Utilities Commission will have to decide whether Summit Carbon Solutions can change the ending destination for its carbon ...
Iowa Capital Dispatch Dec 28, 2025

Clues To Determining Whether It's Covid Or Flu
(Undated) The holiday season is prime time for getting COVID and influenza, but telling them apart isn't easy. Symptoms are similar, including fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat, head and body pain...
Tom Robinson Dec 28, 2025

Ice fishing not advised across much of Iowa
(Des Moines) Iowa's stretch of unseasonably warm temperatures has deteriorated the quality of ice across much of the state south of Iowa Hwy. 3, to the point where any remaining ice is considered unsa...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2025

DNR Year Looking Back: New State Record Fish
(Lewis) As 2025 wraps up and 2026 nears, DNR Fisheries Biologist John Lorenzen takes a moment to reflect and share some remarkable harvest numbers and state record fish. Lorenzen reports that two new ...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2025

Record Farmland Sale Reported in Northwest Iowa
(Sioux County) KCAU reports a farmland sale in northwest Iowa has set a new state record for price per acre. Just over 31 acres of farmland northwest of Orange City in Sioux County sold for $1.13 mill...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2025

Arctic Blast Set to Hit the Area as Weekend Warmth Gives Way to Cold and Light Snow
(Des Moines) Enjoy the weekend weather, because it is about to change. Brooke Hagenhoff, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Des Moines, says an Arctic Blast is heading this way. "The...
Tom Robinson Dec 27, 2025

Dense Fog Advisory
(Des Moines) The entire state of Iowa is under a Dense Fog Advisory until Noon on Saturday. According to the National Weather Service, visibility is down to one-quarter of a mile or less in some areas...
Tom Robinson Dec 26, 2025

Creston Police Report
(Creston) The Creston Police Department reports two arrests. Police arrested 39-year-old Thomas James Blobaum of Creston on Wednesday for Domestic Abuse. Blobaum was taken to Union County Jail. Bail w...
Tom Robinson Dec 26, 2025







