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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 […]

A central Iowa TV sportscaster is out with his second book. Scott Reister says “Football Spy” follows the story of the first book that had little league baseball players threatened by a spy. “Same characters, but now it’s football season. They’ve got a new adventure to go on. They’ve got to save someone. And the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The sports betting company Fan Duel has been fined $95,000 on two violations involving wagers not allowed in Iowa. Racing and Gaming Racing administrator Tina Eick says one of the violations came from bets on soccer games. “You can’t wager on decisions made by an umpire or referee in the state, and so one of […]

State Climatologist Justin Glisansays Iowa and the entire upper midwest saw a warmer July with the average temperature about 77 degrees — or three degrees above average. “So, with 154 years of records, preliminarily the 25th warmest July on record, with July climatologically the warmest of any month. So that shows you just how warm […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is asking for a Presidential Disaster Declaration for four counties following severe weather between July 1st and 4th. That weather included heavy rainfall and flash flooding in Jasper, Polk, Story, and Warren counties. The governor requests FEMA Public Assistance Program funding and hazard mitigation assistance funding statewide. A joint preliminary damage assessment […]

The Iowa Pork Producers Association is planning what it calls a “Pork Chop Salute” the first Sunday of the Iowa State Fair to celebrate America’s birthday. “We will be giving away 1,776 pork chops as part of our celebration for America 250 during the Iowa State Fair on Sunday, August 16th, starting at 11 a-m,” […]

Flashes of lightening and booming thunder woke many people up this morning as storms loaded with rain moved across the state. National Weather Service metrologist Tyler Ryan says many areas got a half inch or so, but others saw much more. “You get down into southern parts of Iowa, closer over to maybe some southwestern […]