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The Iowa Natural Resource Commission approved a new rule on the use of trail cameras at their meeting last week. The DNR’s Chris Ensminger says the new rule prohibits the use of trail cameras in game management areas, except where the department permits them. Ensminger says they held a public hearing on the change at […]

The Iowa Department of Public Safety has released more information on the shooting death Tuesday of a woman in Stuart and the wounding of a state trooper. Officers responded to reports of shots fired at 3:35 p.m. in Stuart. State Trooper Chase Carruthers was among the first to arrive and found 46-year-old Austin Reed armed […]

(Stuart) -- The Iowa Department of Public Safety has released more information on the shooting death Tuesday of a woman in Stuart and the wounding of a state trooper.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is taking public comments on a proposed rule change that would give in-state hunters the first shot at pheasants and other game over out-of-state hunters. The DNR’s Chris Ensminger says it’s something they’ve been working on since 2021. “We have some places like near the borders and things where […]

The state unemployment rate held at 3.2% for the third month in a row in July. Iowa Workforce Development deputy director Georgia Van Gundy says the labor force participation rate did fall two tenths of a percent, which she attributed to two things. “More retirements occurring and then also some later than normal seasonal layoffs […]

Businesses in Clinton and Waverly are getting state economic incentives on the promise of creating 58 jobs. Iowa Economic Development Authority spokesperson Kanan Kappleman says ADM plans to expand operations in Clinton. “They plan to convert an underutilized facility at its Clinton complex into precision fermentation facility, and it’ll expand the site’s ability to produce […]

The operators of the Agri Star Meat Plant in Postville say some limited operations could start up this week after the big fire that hit the plant in the last week of July. Iowa Workforce Development deputy director Georgia Van Gundy says they’ve been helping out, but she says the number of people out of […]

The Illinois State Police and the FBI say they have a new lead in the 34-year-old unsolved murder of an Iowa college student Twenty-one-year -old Tammy Zywicki was returning to Grinnell college from Lasalle, Illinois on August 23rd 1992. She was last seen on I-80 in LaSalle County, Illinois and her car was found abandoned […]

Many people are reporting a big bounty from their gardens this year thanks to a plenty of rain and heat. Iowa State University Extension Horticulture specialists Aaron Steil says those conditions have also led to problems for plants like tomatoes. “We’ve had a lot of rain. It’s kind of come in big events across much […]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is taking public comments on a proposed rule change that would give in-state hunters the first shot at pheasants and other game over out-of-state hunters on public lands. The DNR’s Chris Ensminger says it’s something they’ve been working on since 2021. “We have some places like near the borders and things where we have […]