Category Archives: KXEL News

Vice President Mike Pence has called Iowa’s response to the coronavirus “a success story” and will visit Des Moines today. Pence is scheduled to meet with faith leaders to encourage ...

IOWA GOVERNOR KIM REYNOLDS WAS IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON WEDNESDAY, TELLING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ABOUT IOWA'S CORONAVIRUS SITUATION. STARTING TOMORROW, MALLS, RETAILERS, AND GYMS WILL BE ABLE TO OPEN IN...

TYSON'S PORK PRODUCTION FACILITY IN WATERLOO IS SCHEDULED TO REOPEN TOMORROW ON A LIMITED BASIS. THE WATERLOO OPERATION HAS BEEN CLOSED SINCE APRIL 22ND DUE TO A COVID-19 OUTBREAK WHICH LED TO 444 CAS...

Numbers from the Iowa Department of Public Heath yesterday showed 19 COVID-19 related deaths in Iowa compared with the day before, bringing the statewide total so far to 207. Of those, three deaths we...

THE VICTIMS OF A FATAL WEEKEND MOTORCYCLE CRASH IN CLINTON COUNTY HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. 63-YEAR-OLD DAVID BOETTCHER AND 61-YEAR-OLD VICKIE BOETTCHER, BOTH OF LOWDEN, DIED IN THE SATURDAY ACCIDENT NEAR...

LAW ENFORCEMENT WORKING ON A HOMICIDE CASE ARE ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC'S HELP TO FIND A MISSING VEHICLE THAT COULD BE IN OR NEAR BLACK HAWK COUNTY. THE BLUE SUBARU FORESTER HAS AN ARIZONA LICENSE PLATE:...

COVID-19 OUTBREAKS HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT FOUR DIFFERENT LONGTERM CARE OR NURSING FACILITIES IN LINN COUNTY ADDING UP TO A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 200 INDIVIDUAL CASES. SPEAKING AT A CORONAVIRUS BRIEFIN...

Big meatpacking companies that have struggled to keep plants open during the coronavirus crisis say they welcome President Trump's executive order that plants must remain open. But unions, some employ...

BLACK HAWK COUNTY IS NOT AMONG THE PARTS OF IOWA WHICH WILL SEE A QUICK REOPENING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR NAFISSA CISSE-EGBUONYE ON MONDAY SAID THAT TYSON FOODS HAD COMPLETE...

A MOBILE HOME FIRE CAUSED DAMAGE - BUT THERE WERE NO INJURIES FROM THE INCIDENT OVERNIGHT IN IOWA CITY. FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED SHORTLY AFTER 10 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT AND FOUND THE FIRE NEAR THE MOBILE HOME...