STATE NEWS

BY DAR DANIELSON RADIO IOWA - Students have started moving back to campus at Iowa State University in Ames. Provost Jonathan Wickert, says the fall semester will see things get back to more normal operation after…

An inmate from Ottumwa was found dead inside his prison cell.  32-year-old Joshua Michael Pierce was found dead early Monday morning (8/16) inside his cell at the Clarinda Correctional Facility.  An autopsy will determine the…

Here’s an update to a story the No Coast Network has been following.  A nine-year-old boy who was rescued from the beach at Rock Creek State Park Saturday (9/14) has died.  The Jasper County Sheriff’s…

Iowa has tossed out tens of thousands of expired COVID-19 vaccine doses and could toss out hundreds of thousands more if demand for the vaccine continues to lag in the state, health officials there said.…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR The prosecutor in the case of the inmate who pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder Friday in the deaths of two employees at the Anamosa prison says such pleas are…

BY DAR DANIELSON RADIO IOWA - Trucking companies continue to be behind when it comes to finding enough drivers to get behind the wheel. Iowa Motor Truck Association president, Brenda Neville, says they’d been behind before…

By DAVID PITT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Worried parents with children too young to be vaccinated called on the the Iowa State Board of Education on Thursday to implore Gov. Kim Reynolds to reverse…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON RADIO IOWA - The pace of vaccinations appears to be trending up slightly in Iowa as the number of patients hospitalized in Iowa with Covid grows. In the past 40 days, the…

A teenager who was critically injured in an Iowa amusement ride accident that killed his younger brother last month was expected to be released from the hospital Tuesday (8/3), the family’s attorney said. David Jaramillo,…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Iowa’s most populous county and host of this month’s Iowa State Fair now has a high level of coronavirus transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Polk County officials are urging…