NEWS

BY DAR DANIELSON The 19 state-licensed casinos are allowed to reopen on June 1st and are starting to release their plans for getting the slot machines working again. The manager of the state’s largest facility, Gary…

Thursday (5/28) is the first day of absentee balloting in Iowa in advance of Tuesday’s primary election.   You can vote in the lobby of your county courthouse Thursday and Friday (5/29) from 8am to 4:30pm,…

A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for the No Coast Network listening area until 7pm Thursday night (5/28).  The National Weather Service says slow moving showers and thunderstorms could produce one to two inches…

Brad Paisley honored some of the folks working on the frontlines of the coronavirus in a very special way. The singer made a surprise appearance during last week’s virtual Vanderbilt 2020 State of Nursing address,…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON State officials today confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks at pork processing facilities in northwest Iowa. A spokesperson for the company says the testing was done three weeks ago, on the 4th and 5th of…

Pella Christian High School has qualified for the Carrie Chapman Catt Award for the school year that just ended.  The award goes to Iowa schools that register at least 90 percent of eligible students to…

By TED ANTHONY The fraught, freighted number of this particular American moment is a round one brimming with zeroes: 100,000. A hundred thousands. A thousand hundreds. Five thousand score. More than 8,000 dozen. All dead.…

Play ball!  At Tuesday’s (5/26) special meeting, the Oskaloosa School Board voted to allow the baseball and softball seasons to go ahead.  Some Board members expressed concerns about coronavirus and their measure highly recommends that…

Luke Combs has landed a new number one. “Does To Me,” Luke’s collaboration with Eric Church, tops the “Billboard” Country Airplay chart this week, making it Luke's record-extending eighth consecutive career-opening number one. Luke first…

Checking the numbers, 464 Iowans have now died from coronavirus, with one new death in Mahaska County and one in Jasper County.  And 17,661 people have tested positive for COVID-19. Also, Crystal Heights Care Center…