Category Archives: Local News
Iowa Farmland Values Hit Record High
(Ames, IA) -- The value of Iowa farmland has hit a new high. Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural and Rural Development finds values are up 17-percent, to eleven-thousand-411 dollars per ac...
Dec 13, 2022
Cass County Supervisors hear request for full-time Cass County Tourism Director
(Cass Co) The Cass County Board of Supervisors heard a presentation this morning on a request for a full-time Cass County Tourism Director. For the past 15 years, Kenner Baxter of Marne has led the Ca...
Dec 13, 2022
Funding for Audubon fire station set to be voted on in March
(Audubon) A FY23 Budget Amendment was acted on Monday night by the Audubon City Council. Following a public hearing, the amendment to the FY23 Budget was approved. "Nobody spoke to it at all there. We...
Dec 13, 2022
CAM School Board Elects Officers: Sets Timeline on Decision of Closing an Attendance Center
(Anita) The CAM School Board re-elected Todd McKee as President and Chuck Kinzie as Vice-President during their organizational meeting on Monday night. Linda Jahde was reappointed as the board secreta...
Dec 13, 2022
Boone County Crash Claims One Life
(Ogden) An Ogden man died in a pickup/semi accident. The Iowa State Patrol says the crash happened at 5:21 p.m. on Monday on westbound Highway 30 at R Avenue in Boone County. Authorities say 34-year-o...
Dec 13, 2022
Casey's Faces Two Potential Class-Action Lawsuits
(Undated) An Iowa-based convenience store faces two potential class-action lawsuits. The lawsuits say Casey's is cheating workers out of overtime wages. They claim that managers require employees to w...
Dec 13, 2022
Iowa Teen Pleads Guilty to Assault in Juvenile Court
(Story County) A Roland-Story High School student pleaded guilty to assault after the case was moved to juvenile court. Seventeen-year-old Kade Blume admits to assaulting someone as part of a hazing i...
Dec 13, 2022
Villisca Man arrested on Warrant
(Villisca) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested Braden Gray in the 100 block of 3rd Street in Villisca on an active warrant for failure to appear for driving while revoked. Deputies transpo...
Dec 13, 2022
Wind Advisory in effect from 6 AM to 9 PM Tuesday
(Des Moines) A Wind Advisory is in effect from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday for most of the state. Currently, the southwest Iowa counties in the Advisory include Audubon, Guthrie, Cass, Adair, Adams, Unio...
Dec 12, 2022
NDAA Includes Provision Sponsored By Sen. Ernst
(Washington, DC) -- U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa has a provision in this year's National Defense Authorization Act that would authorize the U.S. military to train troops in Ukraine on underwater de...
Dec 12, 2022
