Category Archives: KXEL News

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS IS VISITING THE SOUTHERN BORDER IN EL PASO, TEXAS WITH HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY ALEJANDRO MAYORKAS TODAY. IT IS A TRIP IOWA CONGRESSWOMAN ASHLEY HINSON HAS PUSHED HARRI...

Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to a request from southern governors to help fight crime at the U.S.-Mexico bo...

FEDERAL CHANGES TO VOTING LAW STALLED IN THE U.S. SENATE EARLIER THIS WEEK. A VOTE IN THE CHAMBER SPLIT 50-50; DEMOCRATS BACKED THE LEGISLATION WHILE REPUBLICANS OPPOSED THE BILL. IOWA SENATOR JONI ER...

Iowa's unemployment rate bumped up to 3.9% in May, even as more Iowans worked at jobs. Iowa Workforce Development reported yesterday that the rate was up slightly from the 3.8% unemployment rate in Ap...

FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS WEEK, A SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN EASTERN IOWA PROVED FATAL. TUESDAY NIGHT, EMERGENCY WORKERS WERE CALLED TO A CRASH SCENE ON HIGHWAY 30 NEAR PALISADES-KEPLER STATE PARK BETW...

A Chicago man robbed two Iowa gas station employees at gunpoint and confined them in a cooler before he fired ten shots at a sheriff's deputy who responded to a report of the crime...all according to ...

WITH WAGES CLIMBING AS COMPANIES TRY TO FILL VACANCIES, MANY MUNICIPAL WORKERS IN WATERLOO WILL ALSO SEE A PAY INCREASE. MONDAY EVENING, THE WATERLOO CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A THREE PERCENT PAYROLL BOOS...

The man accused of shooting a Linn County Sheriff's deputy, leading to a more than 12-hour long manhunt, is facing charges of attempted murder and first degree robbery. 36-year-old Stanley Donahue of ...

A LINN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES LAST NIGHT WHILE RESPONDING TO A CONVENIENCE STORE ROBBERY IN COGGON. THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYS IT HAPPENED AFTER 10 PM AT THE CASEY'S STORE THER...

The State Medical Examiner is ruling the death of a Tama County man as a homicide. Officials say Ryan Cooper was killed by a gunshot. Shortly after 4:30 early Friday morning, emergency crews responded...