Category Archives: KXEL News

SINCE SEVERE STORMS PASSED THROUGH EASTERN IOWA ON TUESDAY, PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE BEEN ASSESSING THE DAMAGE. FARMERS ALREADY BATTLING A DIFFICULT WEATHER YEAR FACED ANOTHER SETBACK IF THEY WERE IN THE ...

Waterloo Police say a teenager was arrested in connection with a deadly shooting Tuesday near the Kwik Star off Highway 218. A 17-year-old was arrested yesterday and charged with Robbery in the 1st De...

A HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SITUATION INVOLVING HYDROCHLORIC ACID DEVELOPED WEDNESDAY EVENING IN THE SOUTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY OF EDDYVILLE. AUTHORITIES SAY TWO TANKS OF THE CHEMICAL WERE LEAKING AT AN ANIMA...

A proposed class-action lawsuit claims that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' decision to end enhanced unemployment benefits for tens of thousands of residents violated state law and asks a court to reinstate t...

A DEADLY SHOOTING IN WATERLOO HAPPENED IN A HIGH-TRAFFIC AREA JUST BLOCKS FROM DOWNTOWN LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON. AUTHORITIES SAY THE VICTIM WAS HIT BY GUNFIRE OUTSIDE A CONVENIENCE STORE ON HIGHWAY 218...

The window for filing nomination papers for municipal elections opened on Monday, and Cedar Rapids candidate Tiffany O'Donnell turned in more than the required number of signatures early Tuesday morni...

RELIEF IN DECORAH AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL LED TO HOURS OF CONCERN. MORE THAN 100 VOLUNTEERS ANSWERED THE CALL TO LOOK FOR A MISSING SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENT. BRANDON QUAM DISAPPEARED FROM DECORAH H...

A 15-year-old girl has died as the result of injuries she sustained Saturday when the car in which she was a passenger was hit by a train in Black Hawk County. Kate Michels of Maynard was in a car dri...

AS MANY AS 35-THOUSAND AFGHANS WHO SERVED AS INTERPRETERS OR OTHERWISE ASSISTED THE U.S. MILITARY COULD BE COMING TO THE UNITED STATES AS REFUGEES TO ESCAPE THE TALIBAN. DURING A RECENT APPEARANCE ON ...

As Iowa children go back to school, some want the governor to issue an executive order overriding a new state law barring individual schools from issuing mask mandates...including the president, who h...