Governor Kim Reynolds is offering some blunt advice to a fellow Republican. “I think that Steve King needs to make a decision if he wants to represent the people and the values of the fourth district or do something else,” Reynolds said today in Ottumwa. Congressman King, often at the center of controversy, endorsed a […]Powered by WPeMatico
A grand opening and ribbon cutting is scheduled tomorrow for the new Sioux County Regional Airport near Maurice. Harold Schiebout, the chairman of the Sioux County Regional Airport Agency’s board, says it took nearly 20 years to get to this point. “The real backbone partnership is that betwen the cities of Orange City, Sioux Center […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Council Bluffs man is accused of trying to kill his girlfriend. Police were called around 6:20 p.m. Monday on the report of a man attacking a woman with a knife of knives. Officers who responded say they located the suspect in the street and after a struggle, used a Taser to take him into […]Powered by WPeMatico
Northern Iowa coach Mark Farley says another trip to the FCS playoffs is not out of the question as the Panthers get set to host Missouri State to close the regular season. A loss at Youngstown State dropped UNI to 5-5 overall and at 4-3 in the Missouri Valley the Panthers currently share third place with […]Powered by WPeMatico
A 24-year-old black man hired to go door-to-door in West Des Moines neighborhoods to promote Republican Congressman David Young’s candidacy was arrested after refusing to identify himself or answer questions about why he was in the area. Keilon Hill says he was racially profiled. Police say they were investigating two calls about a suspicious person in […]Powered by WPeMatico
Friends and neighbors are pitching in to harvest the crops of a northwest Iowa farmer who was killed in a plane crash last Friday night. Four people lost their lives in that weekend airplane crash in Guthrie County. One of them was 36-year-old Patrick Kellen. Del Kellen farms in Plymouth County and is the father […]Powered by WPeMatico
A court challenge is being raised in Maryland over the presidential appointment of Iowa native Matt Whitaker as acting U.S. attorney general because he wasn’t confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, says it’s a legitimate concern to raise. “I asked that very same question of him […]Powered by WPeMatico
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says U.S. drivers will have access to E15 gasoline next summer. Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is trying to alleviate concerns about the timeline his agency has proposed for moving to year-round sales of E15. “We will be able to go to year-round E15 by next summer. This […]Powered by WPeMatico
Worth County Sheriff Dan Fank says his department, ASPCA, the Humane Society of North Iowa and other animal rescue organizations worked late into the day Monday removing dogs from a breeding operation near the Minnesota border. Frank confirms his office tried to do something before it got to a point where the conditions required that […]Powered by WPeMatico
