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Operators of the state’s news casino in Cedar Rapids announced they will be opening sooner than projected. Kim Pang is the general manager of Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center.  “We originally planned for New Year’s Eve, but you know, we’re preparing for a mid-November opening now,” he says. Pang says everything has fallen into […] View Full Story

The Iowa Republican Party is suing to lift the injunction that has blocked signature verification on Iowa absentee ballots. A 2017 Iowa law gave election officials authority to reject absentee ballots if the signature on the outside envelopes didn’t match the voter’s other signatures on file. The League of United Latin American Citizens sued. A […] View Full Story

The online “Iowa Festivals Guide” indicates hundreds of community celebrations have been scheduled during the summer of 2026, and more than a dozen are this weekend. That includes one organized by a volunteer fire department that serves a community of about 300 residents. Peterson Fire Days start today with a street dance and a movie […] View Full Story

A northwest Iowa sheriff says deputies have recently responded to collisions at rural intersections where the height of corn is obscuring the view of approaching vehicles. Sioux County Sheriff Nate Huizenga has advice for drivers who can’t see cross traffic because corn stalks are in the way. “The safest thing you can do is treat them […] View Full Story

The company that owns a northeast Iowa meat processing plant plans to rebuild after this week’s massive fire the AgriStar plant in Postville. The fire chief in Postville says the fire that started Tuesday morning has destroyed about 75% of the plant. Hundreds of people worked at the facility producing kosher beef and poultry. In […] View Full Story

A Sioux City woman is being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge for allegedly shooting a man to death in rural Plymouth County. Court documents say 35-year-old Ashley Ruhland had been staying with Justin Emmick at his acreage. The were outside at a remote corner of the acreage target shooting when she alledgedly […] View Full Story

The pilot of a crop dusting plane escaped without major injuries after his plane crashed near a residence in Kossuth County. The Kossuth County Law Enforcement center received a 911 call just after 4 p.m. Wednesday reporting a plane crashed in rural Algona. The Cessna Model A-18 8-B plane registered to D and K Aviation […] View Full Story

The completion date for the CyTown development between Jack Trice Stadium and Hilton Coliseum in Ames has moved back. Iowa State University general counsel Mike Norton gave an update to the Board of Regents. “We had suggested that we’d be done fourth quarter ’27, it’s probably slipped into ’28 now. So we’re a little bit […] View Full Story

One person is dead after a boating accident on Clear Lake this morning. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a call was received at about 8:30 A.M. about two boats that collided in the area known locally as the little lake near Ventura. The victim is a male who was operating a fishing boat. […] View Full Story

The Board of Regents met in closed session for most of the day Wednesday to review the performance of the three state university presidents and the executive director of the Regents. Board president Robert Cramer made a single motion on the salary of UI president Barbara Wilson when they returned to open session. “For President […] View Full Story