NEWS

Today (6/2) is Election Day in Iowa.  This primary election will be a bit different in Mahaska County because only two polling places are open: at the Environmental Learning Center on Highway 92 in Oskaloosa…

Luke Bryan has a new Top Ten hit. The singer’s “One Margarita” lands at ten the “Billboard” Country Airplay chart, making it Luke’s 30th Top Ten song. Luke is now the 14th artist with at…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Protesters broke into a Des Moines shopping mall late Sunday afternoon, looting stores that had closed early, including a Target. On Sunday night, a Davenport mall was vandalized. Early this morning, two…

By ASHRAF KHALIL, AARON MORRISON and JIM VERTUNO WASHINGTON (AP) — With cities wounded by days of violent unrest, America headed into a new week with neighborhoods in shambles, urban streets on lockdown and shaken…

Monday night (6/1), the Oskaloosa City Council meets to vote on waiving the sidewalk requirement along A Avenue and Gateway Drive.  The First Church of Nazarene wants to put in a recreation trail south of…

Another 17 Iowans have died from coronavirus over the weekend...for a pandemic total of 537 as of this morning.  One person from Mahaska County has died and one from Wapello County.  Also, 41 new cases…

He drove the wrong way on Highway 163 and crashed into a house.  A man from Fresno, California was killed early Saturday morning (5/30) in that accident.  The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office got a call…

Midland just dropped a five-song acoustic EP, “Guitars, Couches, Etc., Etc.,” which they recorded remotely during their time in quarantine. The album features stripped down versions of such songs as “Drinkin’ Problem,” “Burn Out,” and…

On this day in 1999, Shania Twain's “Come On Over” album was certified for sales of eleven million, temporarily tying it with her own "The Woman In Me" as the best-selling album by a female…

By TIM SULLIVAN and AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Cheering protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department abandoned as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and angry demonstrations flared…