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This Is The Staggering Price Tag On Iowa’s 2024 Storm Season So Far
It's been an expensive year for Iowa when it comes to natural disasters. There has been no shortage of storms in Iowa this year, in fact it's been a record-breaking storm season. Nearly 100 tornadoes made their way through Iowa in April and May alone and there were more that followed after those two months.
Iowa communities open cooling centers with late summer heat wave
Much of Iowa’s eastern third remains under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories today and many communities across the region are opening cooling centers. Polk County’s Extreme Temperature Plan also lowers the barrier for entry to homeless shelters. Brett McIntyre, with the county’s emergency management office, says the...
Is social media like TikTok hurting your child's mental health? What you should know:
In Iowa and around the country, schools and lawmakers are curbing the use of cellphones and other devices in class to help students learn and improve their mental health. In the Des Moines metro area, Dallas Center-Grimes and Des Moines Public Schools have started to implement policies to limit phones during school...
Iowa Internet Sensation Has Unlikely Run in with ’90s Star
You might remember Gucci the cow from the viral videos that took the internet by storm a few years back. He and his owner, Mason Corkery from Jesup, made a splash on television screens after videos of their adventures to Chick-fil-A, Dairy Queen, and Starbucks went viral on TikTok. The...
Tonight Show Announcer Visits His Butter Sculpture at the State Fair [VIDEO]
One member of the historic Tonight Show is from Bay Ridge, New York. Another member of the Tonight Show is from Des Moines, Iowa, and he visited his home state during the Iowa State Fair!. Jimmy Fallon, the star of The Tonight Show is an East Coast native but his...
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