Des Moines IA

Sioux City, Iowa – A fast-moving line of severe thunderstorms could slam parts of northwest Iowa, northeast Nebraska, and southeast South Dakota with 80 mph wind gusts and hail up to 2 inches in diameter through 3 a.m. Saturday. According to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, Severe...

Iowans can now add their state-issued driver’s license or ID to Google Wallet, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT). The mobile ID can be used at more than 200 TSA checkpoints nationwide, including Des Moines and Eastern Iowa airports, as well as at participating businesses equipped with mobile ID...

(Radio Iowa) – Starting Tuesday, July 1st, it will be illegal for Iowa motorists to hold a cell phone, scroll through it or watch videos on it while driving. Sergeant Alex Dinkla is the spokesman for the Iowa State Patrol. “This new ‘hands free’ law says exactly that. Get that phone out of that hand. Find another...

We have seen rounds of showers, thunderstorms and severe weather across the Upper Midwest for the last few days and there is more to go for states like Wisconsin and Iowa. The Storm Prediction Center is forecasting a marginal to slight risk for severe thunderstorms for Sunday June 29th into Monday June 30th. There is...

The National Weather Service has issued two tornado warnings this Thursday, June 26.

GRIMES, Iowa — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is on the scene of a rollover crash that injured one person in Grimes on Friday afternoon. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the accident involved a single-vehicle rollover that involved an adult male. The accident occurred in the 700 block of NE Edgewood...

Thinking about hitting a lake or river this Independence Day? Well, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is trying to remind people to be safe if they plan to do so.

DELOIT, Iowa (KCRG) - A medical examiner’s office collaborated with a DNA lab in Texas to identify a missing western Iowa man. Shirlee Henkel, a 1987 John Doe, was identified by Othram, a DNA lab in Texas, along with the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office. He was entered...

The Iowa-based newspaper company Lee Enterprises has agreed to pay $9.5 million to subscribers alleging privacy violations and is now facing three invasion-of-privacy lawsuits from current or former employees. The three new lawsuits, each filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, allege that...

(Des Moines, IA) — Six people are accused of voting in Iowa without full U.S. citizenship. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s office claims 277 people either voted or registered to vote illegally in the 2024 general elections. This led to the state Attorney General’s Office bringing charges against six individuals...