Category Archives: KXEL News

CEDAR RAPIDS PLANS TO USE SOME COVID-19 RELIEF MONEY TO COVER A LONGSTANDING NEED. DURING A THURSDAY MEDIA EVENT, MAYOR BRAD HART OFFERED DETAILS. SINCE THE 2008 CEDAR RIVER FLOOD, ATTENTION HAS BEEN ...

The Iowa Business Council has released its second-quarter Economic Outlook Survey, measuring member expectations for sales, capital spending and employment for the next six months. The second-quarter ...

POLICE HAVE ARRESTED THE MAN THEY ALLEGE FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS AT ANOTHER PERSON IN CEDAR RAPIDS LAST NIGHT. NO ONE WAS INJURED IN THE INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED IN THE 15 HUNDRED BLOCK OF 1ST AVENUE NORTH...

A Marion teenager injured in an accident on an amusement park ride that killed his younger brother Michael remains on life support as he marked his 16th birthday. David Jaramillo has been in a medical...

THE PASTOR OF A CEDAR RAPIDS CHURCH REMEMBERED A SMILING, OUTGOING MICHAEL JARAMILLO, THE 11-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO WAS KILLED DURING A WEEKEND ACCIDENT AT ADVENTURELAND THEME PARK. OUR COVERAGE PARTNERS AT...

The father of an 11-year-old boy who died following an accident on a popular boat ride at the Adventureland amusement park in Altoona says his son and other family members were trapped by the ride's s...

INCREASED SALES AND AN EXPANDING ECONOMY ARE THE EXPECTATION FOR THE STATE'S LARGEST COMPANIES. THE LATEST QUARTERLY SURVEY RESULTS FROM THE IOWA ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY SHOW MORE THAN TH...

Authorities are investigating the cause of an accident that killed a boy on a popular boat ride at an Iowa amusement park, the second deadly incident on the ride in five years. Adventureland Park in A...

From the Associated Press For years, Des Moines Water Works has tried to force or cajole farmers upstream to reduce the runoff of fertilizer that leaves the rivers with sky-high nitrate levels but law...

City of Waterloo offices are closed today, a legal holiday marking Independence Day...and that means no garbage routes will be run today. Monday and Tuesday garbage routes will both be picked up tomor...