Category Archives: KXEL News

WEDNESDAY EVENING, A MAN IN HIS 60S WAS FOUND ON THE PAVEMENT BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE WATERLOO RETIREMENT COMMUNITY WHERE HE LIVES. INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO WHETHER THE UNIDENTIFIED VICTIM MIGHT HA...

An Iowa judge who nullified 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Linn County is deciding the fate of thousands more in Johnson County. Judge Ian Thornhill heard arguments yesterday in Johnson County, th...

CEDAR FALLS NOW REQUIRES MASKS IN PUBLIC. ON TUESDAY NIGHT, THE CEDAR FALLS CITY COUNCIL VOTED 4-3 IN FAVOR OF FACE COVERINGS. MUCH LIKE WATERLOO'S MANDATE, THE NEW GUIDELINES REQUIRES MASKS IN INDOOR...

State district court judges in Des Moines and Iowa City have declined to halt enforcement of a state requirement for schools to return students to classrooms. The judges Tuesday rejected arguments fro...

MANY IOWA FARMERS ARE GLAD TO SEE WETTER CONDITIONS IN THE EARLY DAYS OF SEPTEMBER. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS, LIKE THOSE WITH CORN FIELDS DAMAGED BY LAST MONTH'S DERECHO. OUR COVERAGE PARTNERS FROM TV9 TA...

Disagreement continues in Washington, D.C., over further financial aid tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic shutdown. U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst told me Friday that Republicans in the U.S. Senate are ...

An eastern Iowa hog farmer has been sentenced to life in prison in connection with the death of his wife, who was impaled in the back with a corn rake. Iowa District Court Judge Thomas Bitter issued t...

LABOR DAY WEEKEND IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. THAT HAS SOME HEALTH PROFESSIONALS CONCERNED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF THE CORONAVIRUS SPREADING. DR. JORGE SALINAS IS THE LEAD EPIDEMIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ...

Drought conditions continue to worsen in Iowa as the latest U.S. Drought Monitor report shows nearly the entire state is dry. A swath of the state from the Nebraska border to the edge of Polk County i...

CEDAR RAPIDS HAS A FACE COVERING MANDATE. CEDAR RAPIDS MAYOR BRAD HART ISSUED AN EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON REQUIRING MASKS IN PUBLIC PLACES IMMEDIATELY. THERE ARE A FEW EXCEPTIONS AND...