Category Archives: KXEL News

GASOLINE FUMES FROM A GARAGE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHAT CAUSED A HOME NEAR CASCADE TO EXPLODE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. TWO PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE WERE TAKEN TO AREA HOSPITALS IN DUBUQUE; INJURIES TO JOYCE AND MICH...

Cedar Falls voters will go to the polls again Tuesday in a runoff election for a city council at-large position. The top vote getter in this month five-person race was LeaAnn Saul, who said the on-goi...

IOWA CROPS CONTINUE TO LOOK GOOD. THE USDA'S WEEKLY CROP REPORT PUT CORN 10-12 DAYS AHEAD OF LAST YEAR AND 3-4 DAYS AHEAD OF THE FIVE YEAR AVERAGE. SOYBEANS ARE DEVELOPING APPROXIMATELY TWO WEEKS FAST...

The Iowa Department of Public Health added 469 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 between 10 a.m. Sunday morning to 10 a.m. Monday morning. Three additional COVID-19 related deaths were reported, after n...

JOE BIDEN DELIVERED A WEBSTREAMED MESSAGE TO IOWA DEMOCRATS LAST NIGHT DURING AN ONLINE EDITION OF THE IOWA DEMOCRATIC PARTY HALL OF FAME DINNER. IN THE THREE-AND-A-HALF MINUTE VIDEO, BIDEN URGED SUPP...

One of the on-going issues as the pandemic continues is the lack of child care for parents who want to go back to work. U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst spoke on one partial solution during a Senate Committee on ...

THE LINN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE SAYS A POSITIVE COVID-19 CASE WAS DISCOVERED IN A MAN HELD IN LINN COUNTY JAIL. IN A STATEMENT, THE DEPARTMENT SAID A MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL ON WEDNESDAY FOR AN...

The number of first-time unemployment claims in Iowa filed last week was 9,505 but the number of continuing weekly unemployment claims during that time dropped by nearly 18,000 from the week before. T...

MORE DETAILS ARE BECOMING AVAILABLE ABOUT A COVID-19 TESTING SLOWDOWN AT A TEST IOWA SITE IN DUBUQUE. AN AIDE TO GOV. KIM REYNOLDS SAYS CONCERNS WITH QUALITY AND SAFETY PROMPTED THE STATE TO REDUCE OP...

Republican Ashley Hinson says she has ended a working relationship with a consulting firm she blames for plagiarism uncovered by a recent media report. Hinson is running to unseat Democrat first-term ...