Category Archives: KXEL News

THE WHITE HOUSE CORONAVIRUS TASK FORCE SEES COVID-19 EXPANDING IN IOWA. THE GROUP'S LATEST REPORT COVERS THE WEEK ENDING LAST FRIDAY, AND INDICATED THAT THE RATE OF POSITIVE TESTS WAS UP COMPARED WITH...

Iowa’s unemployment rate for September dropped to 4.7%, continuing a five-month trend of hiring after the state’s economy was hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Iowa Workforce Development re...

CARY DARRAH IS THE NEW CHAIR OF THE IOWA CHAMBER ALLIANCE. DARRAH IS PRESIDENT AND CEO OF GROW CEDAR VALLEY, A BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT NON-PROFIT WORKING IN BLACK HAWK COUNTY AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES....

Iowa’s auditor is warning that the governor’s decision to spend $21 million in federal pandemic relief funds on a new executive branch software system would not be allowed and should be ab...

THE NEED FOR HELP IS STILL THERE AFTER THE AUGUST DERECHO. OUR COVERAGE PARTNERS AT TV-9 TALKED WITH RAYMOND SIDDELL OF THE IOWA DERECHO STORM RESOURCE CENTER IN CEDAR RAPIDS, AND HE SAYS FEWER PEOPLE...

It will come as no surprise to Iowans...August’s derecho is among the worse storm disasters of the past four decades. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, part of the...

REPUBLICAN SENATOR JONI ERNST AND DEMOCRAT CHALLENGER THERESA GREENFIELD MET IN A DEBATE ON THURSDAY NIGHT. SPEAKING FROM REMOTE LOCATIONS, BOTH SPENT TIME TALKING ABOUT STIMULUS TO HELP PEOPLE THROUG...

A school bus on the way home from classes veered into a ditch following a collision south of Denver yesterday afternoon. It happened shortly around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Burton Avenue and B...

54-YEAR-OLD SHARON HANGARTNER DISAPPEARED BEFORE DAWN ON SUNDAY MORNING. HER BODY WAS DISCOVERED LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON BY AUTHORITIES SEARCHING NEAR A PARK IN HIAWATHA. AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM CEDAR R...

Today is scheduled to be the final day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court. Both of Iowa's U.S. senators serve on the commit...