Category Archives: KXEL News

SEVERAL TYPES OF MUNICIPAL REVENUE ARE EXPECTED TO BE DOWN THIS YEAR, DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS. WATERLOO MAYOR QUENTIN HART RECENTLY LOOKED AT SOME OF THE INCOME THAT IS LIKELY TO BE REDUCED. HART DID N...

State budget experts say they expect state revenues to be about $1.9 million less than last year, revising their estimate to $7.91 billion. The forecasters also estimated yesterday that the state will...

A CHURCH LOCATED BETWEEN GLADBROOK AND GREEN MOUNTAIN WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE ON MONDAY EVENING. IN WINDY CONDITIONS, THICK BLACK SMOKE FROM CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WAS BLOWN OVER SURROUNDING FAR...

President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally tomorrow evening at the Des Moines International Airport. U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley had some advice for the President, when he and I talked yesterday. Yo...

MERCY MEDICAL CENTER IN CEDAR RAPIDS IS SENDING SOME OF ITS WORKFORCE TO THE SIDELINES. APPROXIMATELY SIX PERCENT OF THE HOSPITAL GROUP'S NEARLY 3,500 WORKERS WILL BE FURLOUGHED. MERCY SAYS THE CHANGE...

President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail for the first time since his COVID-19 diagnosis...and he will be making a campaign stop in Iowa on Wednesday at the Des Moines International Airpor...

FIRST DISTRICT CONGRESSWOMAN ABBY FINKENAUER IS FRUSTRATED THE LATEST COVID-19 RELIEF PACKAGE HAS STALLED IN NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE SENATE AND THE WHITE HOUSE. SHE TALKED TO OUR COVERAGE PARTNERS AT...

An inmate at the Linn County Correctional Center has died after being found unresponsive on Wednesday. The Linn County Sherriff’s Office says jail staff was notified of a medical emergency for a...

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS SAYS SHE IS ENCOURAGED BY CORONAVIRUS TRENDS IN SEVERAL AREAS WHERE THE STATE TOOK ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO SLOW COVID-19'S SPREAD LAST MONTH. SHE OFFERED THIS ANALYSIS WEDNES...

Gov. Kim Reynolds acknowledged Iowa is seeing surging numbers of coronavirus cases and record hospitalizations, but she says the health care system could handle the increase and no further action was ...