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There will be a fundraiser in Grinnell Wednesday night (8/4) for the Xavior Harrelson reward fund.  Xavior hasn’t been seen since May 27, when the 11-year-old boy disappeared from his Montezuma home.  The fundraiser will…

Monday night (8/2), the Oskaloosa City Council voted to allow limited consumption and open containers of alcohol in a second alley downtown.  This would be in the alley between Taso’s Restaurant and Hunter’s on High…

The body of a missing Ottumwa woman has been found and police are investigating her death as suspicious.  On Saturday (7/31), Ottumwa Police were told that 60-year-old Helen Showalter took off walking from a vehicle…

Twenty years in prison.  That’s the sentence an Oskaloosa man has received for distribution of meth resulting in death.  28-year-old Cody James Vancenbrock was sentenced Thursday (7/29) for his role in the August 2019 death…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Governor Kim Reynolds says undocumented immigrants and illegal drugs are “infiltrating” Iowa and she may send state troopers to Texas to provide border security in the future. “As the federal government effectively…

Governor Kim Reynolds on Tuesday (7/27) rejected new federal government recommendations about wearing masks to help slow the rapid spread of a coronavirus variant in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

BY MATT KELLEY RADIO IOWA - With last year’s derecho, Iowans learned the hard way that highly destructive weather events can be something other than tornadoes or floods. Technically, the derecho was a severe thunderstorm, the…

An Oskaloosa High School graduate is this year’s Southern Iowa Fair Queen.  Trisha Van Donselaar was crowned Fair Queen Monday night (7/19).  She says she’s enjoying her duties. "It's so fun; I've been really enjoying…

Here’s what’s happening Thursday (7/22) at the Southern Iowa Fair in Oskaloosa.  There will be a children’s cookie decorating contest at 10am on the free stage.  Farm Bureau is sponsoring a barbeque at the free…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR The Climate Prediction Center of the National Weather Service is issuing a La Nina Watch for later this year. Cooler than normal Pacific Ocean surface temperatures lead to the formation of a…