LOCAL NEWS

Turnout was light for Tuesday’s (3/2) special elections across the No Coast Network listening area.  In Oskaloosa, voters overwhelmingly approved raising the city’s hotel/motel tax from five percent to seven percent.  There were 157 votes…

There are special elections across the area Tuesday (3/2).  In Oskaloosa, voters are asked to raisie the city’s hotel-motel tax from 5 percent to 7 percent.  The additional money would go toward economic development and…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR RADIO IOWA - The three Republicans from Iowa who serve in the U.S. House voted against the pandemic relief House Democrats approved this weekend. Fourth district Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull is…

Poweshiek County Public Health will hold COVID-19 vaccine clinics for people age 65 and over in Grinnell on Tuesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 4.  Starting Friday morning (2/26) at 9, those 65 and over…

Republicans in the Iowa Senate approved a bill Tuesday sharply limiting early voting, with some arguing that changes were needed to ensure the integrity of the state’s election despite no evidence of fraud. The bill,…

Here’s an update to a story the No Coast Network has been following.  The name of the man tragically shot and killed during a home invasion in rural Wapello County last week has been released. …

BY O. KAY HENDERSON A central Iowa legislator has been cited for having an unauthorized gun inside the Des Moines Airport. State Senator Brad Zaun, a Republican from Urbandale, says he accidentally left an unloaded gun…

The Iowa Department of Public Health says no one from Iowa died from coronavirus on Friday (2/19) and Saturday (2/20). As of Sunday morning (2/21), the state’s death total for the pandemic is 5336.  There…

A bill providing public schools extra money to cover Covid-related costs has won bipartisan approval in the Iowa House. $27 million would be split among all districts, but Republican Representative Dustin Hite of New Sharon…

Within days of abandoning a plan to hire a private company to establish a statewide call center to help residents set up coronavirus vaccine appointments, Iowa officials on Wednesday said they have cancelled a deal…