Ground is being broken today on the first phase of what’s billed as a fully sustainable community in northeast Iowa. Steve Davis is sales director for Switch Homes, which is starting to develop a 105-home […]

Summer’s here and Iowans are hitting the beaches. Dan Kendall, senior environmental specialist with the Iowa DNR, says there’s a whole crew of people who are spending the season testing the water quality in our […]

About 200 people gathered in downtown Lake City this week for a groundbreaking for Dobson Pipe Organ Builders. The company is building a new facility at the site of the fire in June of 2021 […]

Governor Kim Reynolds and the wife of Florida’s governor shared the stage last night at a “Mamas for DeSantis” event for Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. Casey DeSantis called Iowa’s new state-funded Education Savings Accounts “a […]

The winners of the 2023 Iowa Character Awards have been released. The annual awards salute Iowans who adhere to the six pillars of character: Caring, Citizenship, Fairness, Respect, Responsibility and Trustworthiness. A total of eleven […]

  Fort Dodge Police have arrested the man wanted in the 4th of July murder of a Fort Dodge teenager. Fort Dodge Police say 18-year-old Jamarrion James Davis, also known as J.J., fled as they […]

Willard Miller of Fairfield was sentenced to life with a chance for parole after 35 years Thursday for the killing of his Spanish teacher Nohema Graber in November of 2021. Miller had pleaded guilty to […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence, campaigning in western Iowa this week, says he looks forward to debating former President Donald Trump next month. The first debate among the candidates seeking the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential […]

An insurance company in central Iowa is the subject of a high-dollar sale. West Des Moines-based American Equity Investment Life Holding Company is being purchased by Brookfield Reinsurance of Bermuda in a deal that’s reportedly […]

Fort Dodge police have released the name of the boy who was shot and killed Tuesday night. The victim is identified as 15-year-old Jameel C. Redding Pettrigrew of Fort Dodge. Pettigrew died of his wounds […]

Iowa parents applied for 29,025 of the new state-funded Education Savings Accounts that will cover a child’s private school expenses. The application deadline for a state-funded Education Savings Account was June 30. As of today, […]

Iowans are among the thousands expected to attend this weekend’s Wingnuts Flying Circus airshow in the northwest Missouri town of Tarkio. Airshow Manager Brooks Hurst says the one-day event Saturday (July 8th) is dedicated to […]

Iowa State University researchers are trying out a machine which could greatly improve capacities for future epidemic-related testing surges. ISU’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory received nearly one-million dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study […]

The monthly survey of business leaders in Iowa and eight other Midwestern states shows the regional economy is still growing, but slowly. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says June was the fifth straight month where […]