NEWS

Reba McEntire has a lengthy career's worth of wisdom to pass along that any younger country artist would love to soak up like a sponge. Kelsea Ballerini was the beneficiary of some of that recently when she took…

NEW YORK (AP) — The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place because of the biggest bird flu outbreak in a decade. The 24-7 restaurant said that the…

DES MOINES – Ice fishing shelters, left unattended, must be removed from state-owned lands and waters, including parking lots and boat ramps by Feb. 20. Ice fishing shelter owners who camp in a paid campsite…

PELLA -- Central College returns to the stage with a production of the opera "Hansel and Gretel" this Valentine's Day weekend. This special adaptation has been shortened to make it more suitable and accessible to…

OSKALOOSA, IOWA — Oskaloosa High School students are tackling real-world business problems through the school’s Innovation Workshop, a hands-on program that partners students with local businesses to find creative solutions to operational challenges. Fifteen students…

Last year, Jelly Roll ran...OK, walked...his first-ever 5K run. For a man that was over 500 pounds at his heaviest, that is a huge accomplishment. Get ready for Round 2! Jelly jumped on Instagram yesterday to not only announce…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change take…

By Dar Danielson (Radio Iowa) The rumbling sound of snowblowers at work was rare in January. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says there just wasn’t much snow anywhere. “We’re in a snow drought across the state,…

By Sam Parsons The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors met this morning and approved the final plans for the first phase of the southeast connector project. The project would create a connection between Highway 63…

NEWTON -- On Sunday, February 2, 2025, at 7:07 p.m., Newton Police responded to reports of gunfire during a road rage incident on Interstate 80. Investigators determined that the driver of a blue Peterbilt semi…