Category Archives: KXEL News

Iowa Workforce Development reported 10,747 Iowans filed initial unemployment claims in the most recent week...nearly double the number from the week before...but IWD says an increase was expected, pri...

LAST MONTH, ASHLEY HINSON WON IOWA'S FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SEAT IN A RACE AGAINST INCUMBENT ABBY FINKENAUER. ON THE HOUSE FLOOR WEDNESDAY, FINKENAUER SHARED SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT LEAVING WA...

Gov. Kim Reynolds is extending the current emergency declaration another week, leaving many of the current mitigation efforts in place to combat the pandemic. The governor’s current order was pr...

AFTER EIGHT YEARS LEADING THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DURING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON INDICATE TOM VILSACK IS LIKELY TO RETURN TO THAT ROLE AS PART OF PRESIDENT-ELECT J...

One person has died following a house fire in Waterloo early yesterday morning. Waterloo Fire Rescue crews responded to a home in the 400 block of Sunnyside Avenue shortly after midnight. Fire was see...

WATERLOO FIRST RESPONDERS WERE ON THE SCENE OF A FIRE WHICH CHASED AT LEAST A HALF DOZEN PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOME OVERNIGHT. THOSE SIX PEOPLE WERE TREATED FOR FIRE-RELATED CONDITIONS AT LOCAL HOSPITALS....

President Donald Trump yesterday presented the nation’s highest civilian honor to Waterloo native Dan Gable, the renowned wrestler and coach who won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in M...

A TRANSITION BETWEEN PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS SHOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON DISTRIBUTION OF COVID-19 VACCINES IN IOWA. GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS TALKED ABOUT THAT DURING A RECENT INTERVIEW WITH KXEL'S JEFF...

Iowa will soon get a supply of COVID-19 vaccines...a two inoculation protocol, and one which Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds told KXEL’s Jeff Stein Friday would not be adversely impacted by a possible ch...

After facing a workforce shortage for months, Iowa has awarded an emergency $2.3 million contact-tracing contract to a company owned by a Republican Party insider. The Iowa Department of Public Health...