January 10, 2025

The Mills County Board of Supervisors and the county’s Board of Health have dismissed seven staffers in the Mills County Public Health Department. Both boards cite mismanagement and the county’s potential legal liability for the misuse of grant money The county’s public health administrator and a former administrator who had been working as a consultant […] View Full Story

The Bridgestone tire plant in Des Moines is offering severance packages to about 130 employees, after laying off more than a hundred people last June. The factory makes tires for farm machinery. Local Steelworkers Union president Keenan Bell says the slow down at John Deere factories affects Bridgestone. Fewer tractors being made means less demand […] View Full Story

There’s a wide disparity in gasoline prices across Iowa right now, and depending on where you fill your tank, it may cost 50-cents more a gallon. Even the experts are flummoxed by what’s happening. Brian Ortner, spokesman for AAA-Iowa, says they closely monitor gas prices daily, and he sees no explanation for the sudden jump […] View Full Story

The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a western Iowa daycare provider’s conviction on murder and child endangerment charges. Cass County resident Alison Elaine Dorsey was convicted in 2023 of second-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death, in connection to the death of a child in her care in Massena. It was Dorsey’s second trial. […] View Full Story

Fifty years ago today, a massive snowstorm brought chaos to wide sections of Iowa. Called the “Storm of the Century,” the blizzard claimed 58 lives in the Midwest, including 15 in Iowa. Ed Porter was a photographer for the Sioux City Journal in 1975. He’s 90-years-old now and recalls flying overhead to photograph snow drifts […] View Full Story