July 28, 2026

A toddler was seriously injured Monday evening in western Iowa’s Carroll County after being run over by a vehicle. Several local agencies were dispatched to a home in Coon Rapids at about 8 p.m. and initial reports from Coon Rapids Police say the toddler sustained life threatening head trauma. Authorities say family members immediately administered […] View Full Story

A northern Iowa man and two emergency dispatchers are being honored for the role they played in saving two young men after a fiery car-train collision in Kossuth County earlier this month. During a ceremony Monday in Algona, Sheriff Roger Fisher recognized the efforts of Alex Horak of Lakota on July 14th that likely saved […] View Full Story

The Department of Natural Resources is collecting information from several buoys placed in reservoirs around the central Iowa area. DNR fisheries biologist Seth Fopma says they affectionately call it the “Oxythermal Dynamics Project.” “What it’s really looking at is how temperature and oxygen vary in several of our reservoirs throughout the course of an entire […] View Full Story

Researchers say farmers across the Corn Belt want to diversify their operations but struggle to see a way forward. J. Arbuckle, a rural sociologist at Iowa State University, helped gather input from farmers in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana. Over 90 percent of crop production in the three states is dedicated to corn and soybeans. Arbuckle […] View Full Story