Category Archives: KXEL News

AS STUDENTS AND TEACHERS RETURN TO CLASS, THE NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS CASES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE ACCELERATING IN IOWA. ON WEDNESDAY, STATE OFFICIALS REPORTED 817 NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES AND 13 DEATHS....

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS HAD A NATIONWIDE PLATFORM TO TALK ABOUT THE DERECHO, WHICH CAUSED DAMAGE OVER A WIDE AREA OF THE STATE EARLIER THIS MONTH. LAST NIGHT, SHE SPOKE DURING THE VIRTUAL REPUBLICA...

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds addressed the Republican National Convention last night in a brief speech that focused on how Iowans have faced adversity from last year’s floods and this year's derecho, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS RESIDENTS CONSIDERING ONE TEMPTING SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF LINGERING STORM DEBRIS ARE BEING WARNED THAT BONFIRES IN COULD CAUSE BIGGER ISSUES. CEDAR RAPIDS FIRE CHIEF GREG SMITH NOTES ...

It's been 15 nights since the derecho hit Cedar Rapids...and some residents still did not have electricity last night, following a day when heat indices neared triple digits. The number of customers w...

IT'S BEEN NEARLY TWO WEEKS SINCE RECORD STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS CHANGED LIVES AND THE LANDSCAPE IN CEDAR RAPIDS. AS OF THIS MORNING, ALLIANT ENERGY REPORTED THAT OVER 13-HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE STILL WITHOUT ...

A man was killed in a two-vehicle accident in Black Hawk County Saturday morning. Shortly after 11 a.m., officials were sent to a report of a collision along southbound Interstate 380, near mile marke...

THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SAYS FIVE THOUSAND GALLONS OF DIESEL FUEL SPILLED WHEN A TANKER TRUCK CRASHED INTO A WATERLOO HOUSE ON THURSDAY MORNING. THE TRUCK WAS CARRYING 7,500 GALLONS A...

President Donald Trump approved Governor Kim Reynolds' request for funding under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) individual assistance program for Linn County. This came yesterd...

A VIOLENT ACCIDENT RATTLED A WATERLOO NEIGHBORHOOD THIS MORNING, CAUSING MASSIVE DAMAGE TO A HOME AND LEAVING A GASOLINE TANKER TRUCK UPSIDE DOWN ON A FRONT LAWN. THE WRECK HAPPENED NEAR THE FOUR-WAY ...