Category Archives: KXEL News

FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS, THURSDAY WAS ABOUT ASSESSING THE DAMAGE FROM STORMS WHICH CROSSED THE STATE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING. JOE SOLDWISCH LIVES NEAR WAVERLY AND TAL...

A new monthly survey of bankers in rural parts of Iowa and nine other Plains and Western states suggests continued economic growth in the region, even as nonfarm jobs in most of those states remained ...

TORNADOES CUT THROUGH EASTERN AND CENTRAL IOWA AS PART OF A WEDENSDAY STROM COMPLEX. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS A TRAINED SPOTTER IDENTIFIED A TORNADO WITHIN THE CITY OF WATERLOO AROUND 6:20 LA...

Iowa now has two counties that have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries...Jasper County supervisors voted in favor of the move Tuesday, while Hardin County supervisors did the same ...

CEDAR FALLS AT-LARGE CITY COUNCILMAN DAVE SIRES WILL RUN FOR MAYOR. SIRES WAS ELECTED TO HIS FIRST TERM ON THE COUNCIL IN 2019 AND WILL CHALLENGE MAYOR ROB GREEN, WHO WAS VOTED INTO OFFICE DURING THE ...

A federal judge has agreed to free an Iowa man from jail more than six months after his videotaped confrontation of a police officer inside the U.S. Capitol became one of the most well-known images of...

JULY 13TH IS A SAD ANNIVERSARY FOR THE LOVED ONES OF ELIZABETH COLLINS AND LYRIC COOK-MORRISSEY, AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY OF EVANSDALE. TODAY MARKS THE NINTH YEAR SINCE THE COUSINS WERE ABDUCTED WHILE...

Christian Life Church in Cedar Rapids says Michael Jaramillo's Homegoing service will be held in Des Moines this weekend. The 11-year-old from Marion was killed in an accident on the Raging River ride...

THE LIST OF CANDIDATES IS GETTING LONGER FOR WATERLOO'S NOVEMBER CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS. MUSIC TEACHER JOHN CHILES IS SEEKING THE WARD ONE COUNCIL POSITION. CHILES WORKS FOR THE WATERLOO-CEDAR FALLS S...

A correctional officer was attacked by an inmate at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. It happened just before 2:30 p.m. on Friday. The officer was supervising a group of inmates when one began punching ...