Latest Iowa Headlines
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Iowa Relaxing Quarantine Guidance Despite Rapid COVID Spread
Oct 2 2020 // Gov. Kim Reynolds announced a policy change this week to make it easier for Iowa students, teachers and business workers exposed to someone with COVID-19 to avoid a two-week quarantine, despite a surge in cases across the...
Gas Leak Leads to Explosion in Iowa, Several Homes Damaged
Sep 30 2020 // Fire officials are blaming a gas leak for an explosion that destroyed one Dubuque, Iowa home and damaged several others. KCRG reports that Chief Rick Steines with the Dubuque Fire Department said a machine struck a gas...
Iowa Beef Plant Fine After Coronavirus Outbreak: $957
Sep 25 2020 // Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce — a $957 fine for a minor record-keeping violation. The outbreak at the Iowa Premium...
Iowa Insurance Division Charges Trinity, Aliera Over Unauthorized Health Plans
Sep 24 2020 // The Iowa Insurance Division’s Enforcement has filed charges against Trinity Healthshare Inc. and The Aliera Companies over offerings of unauthorized healthcare products. The department alleges that Trinity,...
August Windstorm Removed 550K Acres of Iowa Corn from Harvest
Sep 17 2020 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated that 550,000 acres of Iowa corn will not be harvested this fall due to damage caused by the Aug. 10 windstorm that swept across the state. That estimate in a report released...
Ex-Iowa City Development Aide Gets Prison for Theft; Must Repay Nonprofit, Insurer
Sep 14 2020 // The former office manager of the Iowa City Area Development Group was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison for a 13-year theft scheme in which she misspent more than a half-million dollars, federal prosecutors...
Hospitals, Nursing Homes Fail to Separate COVID Patients, Putting Others at Risk
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them. The Centers for Disease Control and...
Tyson Foods to Pilot Medical Clinics for Workers at Some Meat Plants Next Year
Sep 4 2020 // Tyson Foods is planning to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants to improve the health of its workers and better protect them from the coronavirus. The Springdale, Arkansas-based company, which processes about...
Iowa State U. Scientist/Storm Chaser: Aug. 10 Derecho an ‘Incredible Event’
Sep 3 2020 // On Sunday night, Aug. 9, Bill Gallus said nobody was talking about severe storms – or even rain – hitting central Iowa over the next five days. That was also true early the next morning. “The last thing in the...
Drones Help Insurance Companies Check Windstorm Damage in Iowa
Aug 31 2020 // Insurance adjusters who descended on Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the Aug. 10 derecho storm are using drones to check roofs and asking homeowners with less severe damage to take their own photos. Some of this is due to the...
Iowa Coronavirus Cases Reach New Daily High of 1,475
Aug 28 2020 // Iowa set a new record for confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday with nearly 1,500 cases, far more than the previous high set in April. In the last 24 hours as of Thursday morning, Iowa recorded 1,475 confirmed cases,...
FEMA Aid OK’d for Iowa County Hardest Hit by Storm
Aug 24 2020 // President Donald Trump has approved Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for eastern Iowa’s Linn County, which was the county that was hardest hit by last week’s rare hurricane-strength windstorm. Gov....
Iowa’s Mandate to Reopen Schools Causing Chaos
Aug 20 2020 // An aggressive push by Iowa’s pro-Trump governor to reopen schools amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak has descended into chaos, with some districts and teachers rebelling and experts calling the scientific...
Report: Iowa Will Only Get Part of $4B Disaster Relief Request, for Now
Aug 19 2020 // President Donald Trump said he had signed an emergency declaration for Iowa to help supply federal money to help the state recover from an unusual wind storm that struck a week ago but federal emergency management...
Trump Approves Federal Emergency Aid for Storm-Damaged Iowa
Aug 17 2020 // U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he approved federal disaster aid for Iowa after a hurricane-force storm hit last week, causing widespread damage in towns and farms and leaving thousands without power. Iowa...
Derecho Storm Leveled Soybean and Corn Fields, Storage Tanks Across Midwest
Aug 16 2020 // A storm packing hurricane-force winds last Monday impacted 37.7 million acres of farmland across the Midwest, including 14 million in Iowa, the Iowa Soybean Association said on Friday, citing estimates from the U.S....
Damage Mounts from Midwest Derecho Storm
Aug 13 2020 // The impact of a windstorm that tore through the Midwest has continued to grow, as widespread power outages have kept businesses closed, limited communication, spoiled food and caused long lines at gas stations. The rare...
Some 10M Acres of Iowa Farmland Impacted by Derecho Storm
Aug 12 2020 // The Derecho storm that hit the Midwest on Aug. 10 potentially impacted some 10 million acres (4 million hectares) of Iowa farmland and millions of bushels of grain storage in the top U.S. corn growing state, Iowa...
Derecho Winds Tear Through U.S. Farmland, Leave 500K-Plus Without Power
Aug 11 2020 // A storm packing hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. Midwest on Aug. 10, causing widespread property damage in cities and rural towns and leaving more than half a million homes and businesses without power. The storm...
Mother of University of Iowa Student Who Died in Freezing Temps Sues
Aug 10 2020 // The mother of an 18-year-old University of Iowa student who froze to death in January 2019 is suing the school for negligence. Michael Belz, of Cedar Rapids, was caught outside of his residence hall on the night of Jan....
