Category Archives: KXEL News

THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN HAVE NOT BEEN IN IOWA SCHOOLS THIS YEAR WITH PARENTS KEEPING THEM HOME DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. THAT WILL MEAN REDUCED STATE SUPPORT AND INCREASING PROPERTY TAXES IN 137 DIS...

Iowa House and Senate committees have each passed an election bill that would limit voting by mail and early voting, allow criminal charges against county auditors who depart from state election guida...

TWO PEOPLE ESCAPED AN APARTMENT FIRE NEAR KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN CEDAR RAPIDS OVERNIGHT. AUTHORITIES SAY A PIECE OF FURNITURE CAUGHT FIRE. THOSE IN THE APARTMENT WERE FORTUNATE UNDER THE CIRCUM...

Within days of abandoning a plan to hire a private company to establish a statewide call center to help residents arrange coronavirus vaccine appointments, Iowa officials now say they have decided not...

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS MORE THAN POSITIVITY RATES AND VACCINE DISTRIBUTION. ACCORDING TO WATERLOO MAYOR QUENTIN HART, IT'S EVEN MORE THAN GETTING BACK TO WHAT WE USED TO CONSIDER NORMAL, WHICH HA...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a proclamation to suspend rules for those hauling motor and heating fuels...this, as a deep freeze across the Midwest sent demand for those fuels soaring. The proclamation...

AN UPDATE ON A SHOOTING AT A MARSHALLTOWN CONVENIENCE STORE: AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE AND A 20-YEAR-OLD IS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN THE INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED BEFORE DAWN ON MONDAY. AUTHORITIES ALLEGE T...

Iowa health officials have reversed a decision to withhold COVID-19 vaccines from some counties that were reported as not having used up to 80% of their allocation last week. The Iowa Department of Pu...

IOWA FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSWOMAN ASHLEY HINSON TALKED VACCINES WHEN SHE WAS A GUEST RECENTLY DURING KXEL LIVE AND LOCAL. HINSON SAYS SHE WANTS THE VACCINATION RATE TO CONTINUE CLIMBING AFTER APPROXIM...

Both of Iowa's U.S. Senators voted to acquit former President Donald J. Trump of the impeachment charge of Incitement of Insurrection Saturday. After the vote, Senator Charles Grassley said he did not...