DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Weather Service in Des Moines has updated information about the potential rainfall and flooding forecast for Tuesday.                                                                     […]

MASON CITY, Iowa—Emergency repairs will require traffic in the construction zone on U.S. 20 near Duncombe to be detoured from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Thursday, June 11, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation’s Mason City construction office. The road will be closed between Iowa 17/Hamilton County Road R-21 (exit 136) and […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Weather Service has issued a Flood and Flash Flood Watch that included Boone County from Tuesday morning until Wednesday morning. Flood Watch National Weather Service Des Moines IA 200 PM CDT Mon Jun 8 2020 …Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding Possible in Central and Eastern Iowa Tuesday into Tuesday Night… .Tropical […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Weather Service has updated it’s projections for heavy rain on Tuesday and has expanded the potential for Flash Flooding to include Boone County.                                                         […]

Modern Woodmen has donated Friendship Benches in Boone.  Darci Newcomb, Boone Municipal Pool manager, is shown with the bench for the pool. Other benches are at Franklin School and the Y Camp.

On Sunday, the Iowa Department of Public Health identified 151 new cases of coronavirus in our state, a significant decrease from the 345 COVID-19 cases reported on Saturday.  Iowa has now had over 21,500 cases of coronavirus, which have resulted in more than 600 deaths:  8 in Saturday’s update and 5 on Sunday, with 3 […]

A Black Lives Matter demonstration is planned for Boone at 6:00 on Monday evening, getting underway at the corner of Story and Eighth Streets.  A moment of silence and remarks from a couple of speakers will be followed by a march south on Story to Mamie Eisenhower, west on Mamie to Carroll Street, north on […]