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By Jerry Mackey: Oskaloosa, Iowa: Perfect weather, packed infield and exciting races greeted the Southern Iowa Fair goers on Tuesday night as the Third Annual Caleb Hammond Memorial was held with a large enthusiastic crowd…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR Some 30.000 Iowans say they will likely lose their housing due to eviction in the next two months, according to a recent federal survey. Renters and service providers are bracing for a…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR The caravan heading west with the remains of nine Native American children who died over a century ago at a Pennsylvania boarding school stopped at the Meskawki Settlement in Tama Thursday. The…

Officials have voted to declare two Iowa counties as Second Amendment sanctuaries where any laws hindering gun rights cannot be enforced, joining similar efforts across the country and coming even as Iowa has significantly loosened…

The man convicted of first degree murder in the 2018 death of Mollie Tibbetts won’t be sentenced on Thursday (7/15) after all.  Defense attorneys for Cristhian Bahena Rivera have filed additional motions.  Earlier this week,…

BY MATT KELLEY RADIO IOWA - Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is introducing a bill today which he says will help rural Iowa communities, as well as isolated towns across the U.S.,  get high-speed internet connections. The…

Gov. Kim Reynolds said Monday (7/12) that Iowa will cover the cost of troopers sent to Texas to fight crime along the U.S. border with Mexico, confirming the state would fund the mission after the…

Crisis Intervention Services/Safe Point of Mahaska County has received a $3700 COVID-19 relief grant through the CARES Act.  This was one of 265 grants given to food pantries and feeding sites across Iowa.

The 133rd Keokuk County Fair begins a three day run Friday (7/9) in What Cheer.  Last year’s fair had fewer events because of coronavirus….and Fair Board member Gene Roland says there’s almost a normal schedule this…

Nine people in Iowa have died from coronavirus since Friday of last week (7/2).  None of those nine deaths were from the No Coast Network listening area.  The state’s death total from the pandemic is…