A cooperative based in Fort Dodge has built an 11-million dollar barge terminal on the Missouri River near the small Iowa town of Blencoe. The NEW Cooperative Port of Blencoe is about 50 miles up river from Council Bluffs. The port has the capacity to load and unload up to nine barges at a time. […]
Two separate accidents took the lives of two Marshalltown residents on Tuesday in Marshall County. The first occurred in the late afternoon as a vehicle driven by 72-year old Terry Stubbs passed several other vehicles on Highway 30 east of Marshalltown and crashed onto the gravel shoulder. Stubbs was transported to the hospital where he […]
For three consecutive days, the number of Covid patients in Iowa hospitals has dipped below 100. The last time Iowa had fewer than 100 hospital patients being treated for the virus was in early April of last year. On Tuesday night, the state website indicated 95 Covid patients were hospitalized in Iowa. “Having fewer than […]
Forecasters say Iowa’s rollercoaster weather will see temperatures rocket back into the 80s and 90s this week after frosty lows dropped into the 30s just last week. The return to summery heat means more worries about drought as the recent rains weren’t enough to reverse months of dry weather. Adam Hartman, a meteorologist with the […]
Economic recovery from the pandemic further accelerated in Iowa during May, but the numbers fell slightly for the Midwest region, according to a survey of business leaders and supply managers in the nine states. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the April numbers showed record growth and while Iowa continued to display its momentum to […]
After the pandemic hit to the Iowa economy a year ago, state tax receipts now are soaring. The state’s fiscal year ends later this month, on June 30. Net tax revenue for the state of Iowa in the past 11 months is more than $7.3 billion. It’s about $1 billion more than same 11 month […]
Some shifts were cancelled at JBS meatpacking plants in Marshalltown and Ottumwa yesterday after a cyberattack on the company. An updated post on the Facebook page for the JBS plant in Ottumwa said the company is “continuing to work through our IT issues” and no pigs will be slaughtered today in Ottumwa on the first […]
State climatologist Justin Glisan says the just-ended month of May was pretty close to the average in the record book. “If we look at the statewide average — we were about 59 degrees — that’s about one degree below average,” Glisan says. He says southeast Iowa was cooler as that part of the state had […]
The search for a missing Montezuma boy who was last seen late Thursday morning continues in Poweshiek County. Hundreds of volunteers turned out Sunday on Xavior Harrelson’s 11th birthday to search in areas within one mile of the boy’s home and in rural areas around Montezuma. Iowa DCI assistant director, Mitch Mortvedt gave an update […]
