NEWS

By Robin Opsahl (Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa Republicans announced the remainder of the state Senate leadership team Monday as the party prepares for its first session in decades holding a supermajority. Iowa Senate Republicans reelected…

OSKALOOSA, IA — Enrollment in the Oskaloosa Community School District has increased by 46 students this school year, according to the Iowa Department of Education. The latest numbers indicate a reversal of the decreases in…

By Sam Parsons The Oskaloosa City Council met last night and received a presentation from Martens & Company on their audit for FY2022. The audit showed that the cash balances of the city at the…

A Taylor Swift-signed guitar could be all yours while supporting a good cause. Raven Drum Foundation’s second annual 12 Drummers Drumming auction is running through December 12, bringing together a list of music’s most influential artists to raise…

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) — Two power substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in what is being investigated as a criminal act. A spokesman for Duke Energy said at a news conference…

By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) A panel of national Democratic Party leaders has voted to eliminate Iowa’s Caucuses from its leading position in the party’s next presidential campaign. President Biden recommended that South Carolina’s…

OSKALOOSA -- The OHS Storybook Players celebrated 40 years as a traveling theatre group on Saturday with two phenomenal performances at George Daily Auditorium.  Forty-three Storybook Players took to the stage to perform Rumpelstiltskin, The Three Billy Goats Gruff,…

PELLA -- Central College senior, Grace Teig, Class of 2023, from Story City, Iowa, will present her work during the Senior Art Major Exhibition through Thursday, Dec. 15, at the Mills Gallery in the Lubbers…

With her 10-year career anniversary coming up, Maren Morris gave an emotional performance on Friday at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to end her “Humble Quest Tour.” She started her set by telling the crowd, “I cry at simple…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says Democrats should give up “restrictive” caucuses and move to champion diversity in the order of their presidential primary calendar. His recommendation deals a major blow to Iowa’s decadeslong…