BOONE, Iowa—A funeral service has been set for 91-year old Chloe Leininger of Boone, Iowa.  The service will be held Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 11:00 AM at Trinity Lutheran Church, 712 Twelfth Street, Boone, Iowa.  Interment will be held at the Mineral Ridge Cemetery, Ridgeport, Iowa. Visitation will be held at the Schroeder-Stark-Welin Funeral […]

BOONE, Iowa—A funeral service has been set for 82-year old Evelyn Mickle-Gildea of Urbandale, Iowa and formerly of Boone, Iowa.  The service will be held Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 10:30 AM at the Schroeder-Stark-Welin Funeral Home, 609 Seventh Street, Boone, Iowa.  Interment will be at the Linwood Park Cemetery, Boone, Iowa. Visitation will be […]

We will list weather related cancellations and postponements on our website at https://www.kwbg.com/category/weather-announcements/.  Please check back as we update the list as we receive the announcements.

No Meals on Wheels; Lions Club cancelled.

Over the weekend, KWBG may have contributed to some confusion about when you can use fireworks within the City Limits of Boone, and we apologize for that. For clarification, according to the City of Boone ordinance #2241, “Use of Fireworks No person shall use, explode, discharge any consumer fireworks on days other than July 3rd […]

Due to the cold weather Meals on Wheels for Tuesday is canceled.

LOCAL SCHEDULE FOR TODAY   HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS/BOYS BASKETBALL Boone at Dallas Center Grimes (5pm on KWBG) Panorama at Ogden   HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING Gilbert, Nevada, West Marshall at Boone   HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SWIMMING Boone at DSM Roosevelt

BOONE, Iowa—The cold weather caused some technical problems for KWBG, knocking our broadcast transmitter off the air for several hours.  Service was restored earlier Monday afternoon with a few minor issues, but on air broadcasting has been restored. Currently, the Iowa State men’s basketball pre-game show is on the air.  Tip-off with Texas is scheduled […]

BOONE, Iowa—Due to the extreme cold weather conditions, KWBG AM is temporarily off the air.  Efforts are being made to restore service as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the KWBG streaming service has been restored and is available from the KWBG website.  For those that previously download the KWBG mobile app, some changes have been made […]