A northwest Iowa production facility slated for closure will remain open, with new ownership on the horizon. Elanco Animal Health announced a year ago it would close its facility in Larchwood. The former head of engineering for the plant, Eric Schuler, was among the 130 employees who learned in September 2017 that Elanco planned to […]Powered by WPeMatico
The first company to legally grow marijuana and manufacture medial marijuana products in Iowa held a ribbon cutting today at their facility in Des Moines as advocates who worked for years to make it possible looked on. MedPharm Iowa’s Lucas Nelson has been in charge of putting the plant together after state law changed to […]Powered by WPeMatico
A key component in the $12.5 million expansion and renovation of a northeast Iowa hospital was placing a heliport atop the new building. Mercy Air Med tested the new heliport this week at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage. Hospital CEO Shelly Russell says the new building presented a challenge to deliver patients […]Powered by WPeMatico
Republican Congressman Steve King is forcefully rejecting critics who’ve accused him of holding the same views as the man who killed 11 Jews at a Pittsburg synagogue. King spoke at a forum today in Des Moines and verbally clashed with a questioner in the crowd. “Do not associate me with that shooter,” King said emphatically, […]Powered by WPeMatico
Two the three teams tied at the top of the American Rivers Conference race meet in Indianola on Saturday when Simpson hosts Dubuque. Both teams are 5-1 in conference play and control their own destiny. With wins in the final two games Simpson will clinch at least a share of the league title and the […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Malvern man is in custody on multiple arson charges after authorities allege he set multiple fires in Poweshiek County. According to the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested 21-year-old Chance Ryan Beres around 7 p.m. Wednesday on Main Street in Malvern. Beres was arrested on a Poweshiek County warrant for three counts of second-degree arson and […]Powered by WPeMatico
New information reveals officials in the Catholic Diocese of Sioux City knew about the alleged sexual abuse of as many as 50 Iowa boys more than 30 years ago by a priest, Reverend Jerry Coyle. The current bishop of the diocese, R. Walker Nickless, says Coyle admitted his actions to his superiors in 1986 and […]Powered by WPeMatico
Marshalltown is the first city in the Midwest to try a new program that provides federal funds to local volunteer agencies to help residents hit by natural disasters. Marshalltown City Administrator Jessica Kinser says the program is called Voluntary Agencies Leading and Organizing Repairs or VALOR. “It’s a program that’s designed to assist households with […]Powered by WPeMatico
The Siouxland Ag Lenders Forum will be held today in Orange City, an event designed not just for lenders but also for crop, dairy and livestock producers. Fred Hall, a dairy specialist with the Iowa State University Extension, says the keynote address will be given by Joe Outlaw of Texas A&M University on the 2018 […]Powered by WPeMatico
