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National coalition helping rural students earn college degrees doubles in size
The STARS College Network, which partners with top colleges — including the University of Iowa — to ensure that students from rural and small-town America have the information and support they need to enroll in and graduate from the college or university of their choice, is doubling its membership.
Why is it so hazy today? Air quality in Iowa impaired by West Coast wildfires
Iowans are seeing the effects of wildfires from across the West Coast. Smoke is causing air quality across Iowa to decline slightly. Over the last few days, it has been cloudy with a light haze visible in the distance. This isn't the first time Iowa's air quality has been impaired by wildfires...
Iowa Disaster Recovery Temporary Housing Program Now Available in Pottawattamie County
(Council Bluffs) In response to this year’s severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding in Iowa, the State of Iowa has initiated the Disaster Recovery Temporary Housing Program for Pottawattamie County. This program is for individuals whose homes were significantly damaged, destroyed, or deemed uninhabitable in counties covered by a Presidential...
Western Iowa Braces for Scattered Showers and Thunderstorms Today
Des Moines, IA – Residents of western Iowa should prepare for scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the day. According to the US National Weather Service in Des Moines, these weather conditions will initially affect the north to northeast regions this morning, extending to central and southern areas by this afternoon and into tonight.
Union Demands Iowa Reinstate Collective Bargaining Rights
(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- Union workers are demanding the state restore their collective bargaining rights. Under current Iowa law, key issues like healthcare, layoffs, and evaluation procedures are non-negotiable. At a press conference yesterday, the union and its workers said they want the old guidelines reinstated. They say fair bargaining...
RAGBRAI Riders Continue Journey Today to Winterset
(Atlantic) After two short forty-mile trips from Glenwood to Red Oak and Red to Atlantic, cyclists will make an 82-mile trip to Winterset today. Riders are leaving Atlantic this morning and heading east through Wiota, Cumberland, Massena, Fontanelle, Greenfield, Orient, Macksburg, and Winterset. Doug Venteicher, Co-Chair of the Massena RAGBRAI...
Lorimor woman booked on warrants in Creston
(Creston) -- A Lorimor woman was arrested on multiple warrants in Creston Tuesday evening. The Creston Police Department says 43-year-old Megan Marie Brown was arrested shortly before 6 p.m. on four warrants, all for failure to appear on the original charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, a simple misdemeanor, driving while barred, an aggravated misdemeanor, possession of a controlled substance--marijuana and methamphetamine, 1st offense--both serious misdemeanors, and for failure to serve jail time on the charge of person ineligible to carry dangerous weapons, a serious misdemeanor. Authorities say the arrest occurred at 307 North Street.
Sonepar to Acquire Echo Electric Supply
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Sonepar announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Echo Electric Supply Company. Family-owned and operated since 1950, Echo Electric supplies electrical parts, equipment and services to contractors in the industrial, commercial and residential markets and ranked in the top 30 of Electrical Wholesaling’s 2024 list of the largest electrical distributors in North America. Operating in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota and Missouri, Echo Electric will join Sonepar with 23 branch locations and more than 600 associates.
‘My prognosis is incredibly bright’: Nebraska lawmaker continues blood cancer treatments
LINCOLN — A Nebraska state senator said her ongoing cancer treatments of a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have been going “very well,” and she looks forward to getting back to the statehouse. State Sen. Jane Raybould of Lincoln, a first-term lawmaker in her second year in office, was diagnosed with splenic marginal zone lymphoma at […]
New Illinois Law Requires Weather Radios In Certain Homes
It's been a rough tornado season and a new Illinois law is taking aim at that. We can all agree it's been a messy summer. In the Chicago area alone last week, there were 33 tornadoes, compared to their usual 5 or 6 per year. With the derecho that moved through last week, 5 tornadoes rolled through the QCA. In Iowa, May was ridiculous. We average 11 tornadoes in May. But this year, we had over 80 tornadoes in May alone.
PETA Pushes Iowa State Fair to Drop Animal Exhibits
A popular tradition at the Iowa State Fair had to be canceled this year for a startling reason. The bird flu is throwing a wrench in the plans for event organizers. Officials for the Iowa State Fair announced that due to the recent outbreaks of avian influenza, they have decided to cancel the milking parlor and "I Milked a Cow" experiences for this fair season.
A job to fall back on: Roca Berry Farm needs pumpkin patch workers
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Roca Berry Farm is staffing up for fall. The pumpkin patch is inviting prospective employees to a hiring event Sunday at 1 p.m. It’s looking for people 16 and older for a variety of positions. “Whether you enjoy interacting with customers, working outdoors, or...
Iowa Parents – Think Twice Before Posting Your Kids’ Back-to-School Photos
Very soon, kids across our neighborhoods will scramble out of bed, bleary-eyed but excited, well some of them. Others will be bleary-eyed and complain about getting up and how going to bed earlier wouldn’t help. Or, maybe that’s just me this morning. Backpacks will be filled with new supplies, breakfasts gulped down between last-minute shoe tying and tooth brushing, and jackets will be zipped up against the morning chill. Who are we kidding, jackets are zipped if you’re lucky. It’s not all that far away,
Iowa DNR Investigates Fish Kill in Northeast Iowa
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is investigating a northeast Iowa fish kill. On July 19th, the DNR Field Office in Manchester was notified of dead fish in Crane Creek, approximately two miles southwest of Readlyn in Bremer County. Officials believe the fish kill originated at 250th Street and Piedmont Avenue.
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