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A company based in Dubuque is expanding in Dyersville. Suttner America, a supplier and distributor of pressure washer components and accessories, is expanding its operations with a new 30,000-square-foot facility in Dyersville’s 20 West Industrial Center. The more than $3 million facility in Dyersville will increase Suttner America’s footprint by approximately 11,000 square feet, providing […] View Full Story

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

Rob Sand, the Democrat running for governor, says it’s time to ban social media accounts for children under the age of 16 and to require parental consent before 16- and 17-year-olds may have their own social media account. Sand said “study after study” has linked social media use among children to higher rates of anxiety, […] View Full Story

Relief is on the way for the oppressive heat across the state. National Weather Service meteorologist Brooke Hagenhoff says today is the last super, super hot day. “We’re looking at temperatures this afternoon in the upper 90s with heat index of 105 to 110 plus this afternoon with the humidity,” Hagenhoff says. She says the […] View Full Story

Two weeks after putting out an urgent appeal for Iowans to give blood, officials with the American Red Cross say the situation has dramatically worsened and they’re declaring the blood shortage is now at the crisis stage. Josh Murray, spokesman for the agency’s Iowa/Nebraska chapter, says many donors have come forward, but it’s still not […] View Full Story

Republican Brenna Bird says in her first two years as Iowa’s attorney general, she was busy suing the Biden Administration for its environmental and gun rights policies, but with President Trump in the White House, she has another primary target now. “We are pretty busy suing California now for violating the Constitution and trying to […] View Full Story

An Iowa teacher who includes “The Odyssey” as required reading in her World Literature class says she’s excited to hear her students’ reactions to the blockbuster movie of the summer. Rochelle Auchenbach, an English teacher at Spencer High School, includes “The Odyssey” in a unit about ancient heroes. “It has so many great themes in […] View Full Story