Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has name an executive with a West Des Moines financial group as the state’s new insurance commissioner. Thirty-seven-year-old Nick Gerhart, of Des Moines, will replace Susan Voss, who is retiring. He will begin his new job …
A days-long fire at the Iowa City Landfill has created a combustible substance that officials are sending to western Nebraska for incineration. The Iowa City Press-Citizen said that the pyrolytic oil is a byproduct of the blaze that has been …
Mason Hansen guns his pickup and cranks the steering wheel to spin through sand up to 4 feet high, but this is no day at the beach. Hanson once grew corn and soybeans in the sandy wasteland in western Iowa, …
Some 3,000 Warren County, Iowa, residents have been notified that their personal information may have been scattered by the wind in the aftermath of a December fire at a human services office. Pat Penning, service area manager for the Department …
The grass-strip McBride Airport has closed nearly 50 years after it was carved out of an eastern Iowa farm field. Ivan McBride told The Gazette it’s difficult to close the tiny airport in Marion that his late father created in …
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (the Big “I”) has awarded an Iowa agency owner, Bob Fulwider, with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its members The Woodworth Memorial Award, presented at the …
The television was tuned to forecasters’ dire warnings of an impending storm when Greg Tomlyanobich heard a short burst from a tornado siren blare after midnight on April 15. Then silence. Then rumbling. The 52-year-old quickly grabbed his wife and …
Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April 15 across the nation’s …
Both sides intend to appeal an Iowa jury’s decision that a television campaign ad by Democrats libeled and slandered Sioux City Republican Sen. Rick Bertrand during the 2010 campaign, The Des Moines Register reported. A Woodbury County jury has awarded …
They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of an Iowa-based trucking company, one of the largest in the nation, told of being propositioned, …
