NEWS

Tuesday night (6/8) the Oskaloosa School Board will consider approving a new contract with Superintendent Paula Wright.  Also at Tuesday’s meeting the Board will consider a calendar for its pre-Kindergarten program.  Tuesday’s Oskaloosa School Board…

State officials have launched a new P-R campaign to encourage more Iowans to get a Covid-19 shot. Two ads are running on radio, T-V and online. One features scenes of summer activities and a message…

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP News - Jeff Bezos will be aboard for Blue Origin’s first human space flight next month. In an Instagram post early Monday, Bezos said he, his brother, and the winner of an ongoing…

Two people were injured in a two vehicle crash Saturday afternoon (6/5) south of Oskaloosa.  The Iowa State Patrol says a car driven by 33-year-old Cristopher Kelley of Kearney, Nebraska was northbound on Eddyville Road…

Law enforcement have set up a tip line to help find a boy who vanished from a Montezuma trailer park days before his 11th birthday. The FBI and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are…

A request for a mistrial in Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s murder trial has been denied.  You’ll remember on May 28, Bahena Rivera was found guilty of first degree murder in the July 2018 death of Mollie…

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added a modest 559,000 jobs in May, an improvement from April’s sluggish gain but still evidence that many companies are struggling to find enough workers as the…

Even in this age of smartphones and Google maps, the Iowa Department of Transportation is printing more than one-million traditional road maps this year. The full-color map measures 27-by-47 inches and includes 942 incorporated cities…

Downtown Oskaloosa is going to be busy Friday night (6/4) as the Mahaska Chamber and Development Group holds Friday after Five.  Mahaska Chamber executive director DeAnn DeGroot tells the No Coast Network about the music…

A boy who vanished from a rural Iowa trailer park days before his 11th birthday is still missing a week later, as state and federal investigators continued Thursday to look into what happened to him.…