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REDMOND (AP) -- Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 workers Tuesday, nearly 3% of its entire workforce and its largest job cuts in more than two years as the company spends heavily on artificial intelligence. Hard…

DES MOINES -- Iowa lakes and rivers will soon be busy with paddlers, boaters, swimmers and people wading to search for fossils, rocks and driftwood or to clean up litter. Rivers are dynamic systems that…

OTTUMWA – An Ottumwa woman is facing charges after authorities say she stabbed her boyfriend multiple times with a knife over the weekend. According to court records, on Sunday morning, at around 5:00am, 27-year-old Kierstyn…

PELLA – A multi vehicle crash in Pella yesterday involving a schoolbus resulted in two people injured, as well as a brief closure to Highway 163 west of Pella. According to traffic records, at around…

Mark your calendars for July 22nd. Trisha Yearwood will lead a tribute concert at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CMA Theater that day to celebrate the music of Linda Ronstadt and the Los Angeles country-rock scene of the…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Tory Lanez was hospitalized after an attack Monday at a California prison where he's serving a 10-year sentence for shooting hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion in the feet, authorities said. Lanez, whose legal name…

By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) The Iowa House has sent the governor a bill that supporters say offers rural pharmacies financial relief by reigning in pharmacy benefit managers. PBMs negotiate drug prices. The bill…

OTTUMWA -- The public is invited to vote for new playground equipment to be installed at the Ottumwa Park campground. The vote will be held on Tuesday, May 13 at the Amtrak train depot, located…

OSKALOOSA, Iowa — At Oskaloosa Elementary School, reallocating an additional educator from pulling students out of the classroom to pushing extra teachers into the classroom has led to extraordinary gains in early literacy in just…

Though there are a number of country music fans unhappy that the ACM awards have moved from broadcast television to streaming, the partnership between the Academy of Country Music and Prime Video just got stronger,…