Weekend festivals
Jun 03, 2022
Now that it’s summer, it’s festival season across the region. Oskaloosa will hold its first Friday After Five event Friday night (6/3) on the town square. There will be food trucks from 5 until 9pm,…
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Northern Iowa father, son get prison time for Capitol riot
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By DAVID PITT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a northern Iowa father and son to prison for their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Daryl…
Des Moines tries cooperation to reduce farm runoff
Jun 01, 2022
By SCOTT McFETRIDGE DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines utility has for years engaged in a bitter struggle to clean up drinking water that comes from rivers teeming with agricultural pollutants, filing lawsuits, proposing legislation…
Street resurfacing in Ottumwa
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Attorney General staff go on the road to hear from public
May 27, 2022
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Iowa part of settlement involving mileage claims for Ford pickups
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BY DAR DANIELSON RADIO IOWA - Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced Iowa is part of a multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company regarding gas mileage claims for pickups. The settlement came after allegations that Ford…
Miller asks for murder trial to be moved
May 25, 2022
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Legislature approves $5.5 million budget boost for UI, ISU, UNI
May 24, 2022
BY O. KAY HENDERSON RADIO IOWA - Legislators will return to the state capitol today to put the finishing touches on state spending plans for the budgeting year that begins July 1. Republicans who hold majorities…
Wind energy plants in Kansas, Iowa closing, could reopen
May 23, 2022
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — The Siemens Gamesa plants in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Fort Madison, Iowa, will be shut down and most employees will be laid off this summer, company officials said Friday. The company, which…
Avian flu restrictions lifted at poultry operations in three counties
May 20, 2022
BY DAR DANIELSON RADIO IOWA - The State Agriculture Department announced today that bird flu restrictions have been lifted for three commercial poultry sites in Franklin, Hamilton, and Humboldt County. The Iowa Turkey Federation’s Gretta Irwin…