Severe thunderstorms rolled over parts of northern and central Iowa on Sunday, bringing much-needed rain to some areas and strong winds. Powerful gusts hit Webster City where resident Craig Ewing says clean-up is going to take some time. “Trees were going down and blocking the street and across the street, trees came down on top […]Powered by WPeMatico
Authorities have identified a body found along a gravel road in Lee County and have filed charges in the case. Iowa DCI Agent Richard Rahn says 20-year-old Sadie Alvarado of Muscatine was found dead in a ditch south of West Point late Sunday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Damian Hamann of Morning Sun is charged with a felony. […]Powered by WPeMatico
A tiny town in eastern Iowa’s Jackson County is the beneficiary of a more than $2.7 million loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The loan is going to the La Motte Telephone Company. General Manager JoAnne Gregorich says the money will be used to install 71 miles of underground fiber-optic cable around the town […]Powered by WPeMatico
Governor Kim Reynolds has asked President Donald Trump for a federal disaster declaration and $16 million in federal assistance to help 30 counties recover from severe storms and flooding in June and July. Osceola County in Northwest Iowa received lots of rainfall and flash flooding during that time that even force one city to evacuate […]Powered by WPeMatico
A central Iowa artist is busy creating special sculptures in butter for two major state fairs. Sarah Pratt, of West Des Moines, says the Iowa State Fair asked her to create the famed “Waterloo Boy” tractor in butter to honor the 100th anniversary of Quad Cities-based Deere and Company. Pratt says the tractor posed some […]Powered by WPeMatico
Two firefighters were treated and released, and one person was rescued from a fire that destroyed the Tama building Saturday night in Burlington. The initial call was made at 10:55 p.m. Saturday. Burlington Firefighters arrived within four minutes of that call and began rescue efforts to save a woman who was trapped on the third […]Powered by WPeMatico
The U.S. House and Senate have each passed their versions of the next Farm Bill and now a conference committee of members from each chamber will meet to come up with a final version. Republican Congressman Rod Blum of Dubuque is hoping a work requirement for welfare that passed the House winds up in the final […]Powered by WPeMatico
A tiny church in northeast Iowa will welcome around 150 couples for its annual marriage reunion celebration this weekend. The Little Brown Church in the Vale, near Nashua in Chickasaw County, has hosted the event on the first weekend in August for decades, though the structure itself is more than 150 years old. The church’s […]Powered by WPeMatico
More than four-dozen Iowa communities will be taking part in next week’s National Night Out. The events are always held on the first Tuesday of August. Hamilton County Sheriff Doug Timmons says it’s an effort to foster relationships between law enforcement and the towns they service. “This is community-based policing to get people to come […]Powered by WPeMatico
