LOCAL NEWS

Turnout was light for Tuesday’s (3/2) special elections across the No Coast Network listening area.  In Oskaloosa, voters overwhelmingly approved raising the city’s hotel/motel tax from five percent to seven percent.  There were 157 votes…

There are special elections across the area Tuesday (3/2).  In Oskaloosa, voters are asked to raisie the city’s hotel-motel tax from 5 percent to 7 percent.  The additional money would go toward economic development and…

BY MATT KELLEY RADIO IOWA - With the arrival of March and the one-year anniversary of sweeping COVID-19 shutdowns across the state, more people are getting vaccinated which is prompting some Iowans to consider Spring Break…

Poweshiek County Public Health will hold COVID-19 vaccine clinics for people age 65 and over in Grinnell on Tuesday, March 2 and Thursday, March 4.  Starting Friday morning (2/26) at 9, those 65 and over…

An Iowa man who filled in wetlands along the Des Moines River in order to build a recreational vehicle campground has reached an agreement with federal officials for violating federal clean water laws, the U.S.…

Here’s an update to a story the No Coast Network has been following.  The name of the man tragically shot and killed during a home invasion in rural Wapello County last week has been released. …

One person from Mahaska County, one from Wapello County and one from Marion County have died from coronavirus.  The deaths reported Monday (2/22) are the first in the No Coast Network listening area in over…

The Iowa Department of Public Health says no one from Iowa died from coronavirus on Friday (2/19) and Saturday (2/20). As of Sunday morning (2/21), the state’s death total for the pandemic is 5336.  There…

Someone who broke into a home in rural Wapello County was shot and killed by the homeowner.  Around 9:20 Thursday night (2/18), Wapello County Sheriff’s Deputies received a 911 call that a man was trying…

Within days of abandoning a plan to hire a private company to establish a statewide call center to help residents set up coronavirus vaccine appointments, Iowa officials on Wednesday said they have cancelled a deal…