Category Archives: KXEL News

ACCESS TO HIGH-SPEED INTERNET IN RURAL AREAS WAS A KEY ISSUE DURING THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED IOWA LEGISLATED SESSION. IT IS ALSO A TOPIC ON THE MINDS OF CONGRESSMEN IN WASHINGTON. FOURTH DISTRICT IOWA R...

Jurors at the trial of the man charged with fatally stabbing a University of Iowa student have been shown surveillance video of a woman running and a vehicle tied to the defendant driving by her secon...

IOWA'S LEGISLATIVE SESSION ENDED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY. ONE OF THE FINAL ACTIONS TO CLEAR THE LEGISLATURE WAS A BILL TO PREVENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS FROM ENACTING THEIR OWN MASK MANDATES. GOVE...

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law yesterday a measure that expands Iowa's charter school rules, allowing groups to set up such schools by applying directly to the state and bypassing local school boar...

FREDERICK RUMBLE WAS THE IOWA CITY MAN WHO DIED EARLY SUNDAY AFTER BEING SHOT AND DRIVING A VEHICLE INTO A TREE. POLICE ANNOUNCED RUMBLE'S IDENTITY TUESDAY AND SAID INVESTIGATORS ARE NOW OFFICIALLY CL...

The Cedar Rapids Community School District announced Tuesday it will be keeping its mask mandate in place through the end of the school year. This is after receiving guidance from Linn County Public H...

NAMES OF BOTH PEOPLE INVOLVED IN AN APPARENT MURDER-SUICIDE HAVE BEEN RELEASED. TANNIAAH SPATES IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY TONY FLOWERS IN A WATERLOO APARTMENT LATE SATURDAY NIGHT BEFORE FLOWERS...

We now know the identities of those killed and injured as the result of a Sunday motor vehicle accident on Mt. Vernon Road north of Dunkerton. The vehicle with four teenage girls from Dunkerton inside...

TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD FROM A INCIDENT WHICH BEGAN LATE SATURDAY IN WATERLOO. POLICE SAY THEY WERE CALLED TO A WEST SIDE APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR SUNNYSIDE COUNTRY CLUB JUST AFTER 11 PM. THE BODY OF A FEMA...

Today, it's called the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center...but it might be called something else soon. If approved by Waterloo City Council at its meeting tonight, the downtown facility could b...