NEWS

A Pella tradition is being cancelled for this year due to the coronavirus.  Tulip Time was cancelled after festival organizers met with Pella city officials and the Marion County Department of Health and Marion County…

Neil Young has announced that his long awaited album Homegrown will be out on April 18 and also revealed the scheduled release dates for four other records this year. Young recorded Homegrown way back in…

By CHRIS BLAKE and FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — Tens of millions of people hunkered down in government-ordered isolation Tuesday as borders slammed shut, schools and businesses closed and increasingly drastic restrictions on movement took…

Former Pella High volleyball player Emily Holterhaus attended an open tryout for the US National Team last month.  Holterhaus, who is a freshman at Northern Iowa, attended the tryout with two UNI teammates.   She talks…

The NAIA, the national governing body for small colleges including William Penn, announced Monday (3/16) that it was cancelling its spring sports seasons, effective immediately. That covers baseball, softball, track and field and lacrosse.  In…

Here are the area school districts that will be closed for at least the next four weeks:  Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Sigourney, Albia, Centerville, Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont, Keota, Knoxville, Lynnville-Sully, Montezuma, North Mahaska, Pella, Twin Cedars and Pekin schools…

This year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Induction Week festivities have been postponed until later this year. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame said the decision to defer the induction…

There’s been a hung jury in an Ottumwa murder case.  Kelsie Thomas was charged with first degree murder and child endangerment causing death in the 2018 death of her 5-year-old daughter, Cloe Chandler. On Friday (2/13),…

By MICHELLE R. SMITH and GILLIAN FLACCUS AP - Workers lost their jobs, parents came up with impromptu home lesson plans for children kept home from shuttered schools. Families fretted over dwindling retirement accounts, the…

If you have a ticket to Friday’s (3/13) Iowa Boys State High School Basketball Tournament, you might not be able to get in.  The IHSAA, which governs boys’ high school sports in Iowa, is restricting…