CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—Alliant Energy’s Iowa energy company is taking proactive steps to reduce costs for customers because of today’s heat. Energy prices can increase during intensely hot summer days. To reduce energy use, we are activating our voluntary Appliance Cycling program for Tuesday and Wednesday. We’ll continue to monitor the conditions to determine if it is […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, Monday, commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly from April through November. “Isolated thunderstorms brought needed rainfall to northern and eastern Iowa towards the end of last week, though much of Iowa […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Conservation Department is pleased to announce that they have received a $25,000 grant from the Wellmark Foundation’s Community Health Request program to be applied towards the design and construction of a new 2.1-mile paved trail. The trail would extend from the High Trestle Trail at QF Lane, north toward Swede Point […]

BOONE, Iowa—The National Weather Service has extended the Heat Advisory coverage area to include Boone County this afternoon and evening. URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Des Moines IA 130 PM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020 …HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING… * WHAT…Heat index values up to around 100 […]

BOONE, Iowa—Funeral arrangements have been set for 88 year old Cleo (Conner) Davidson of Boone, Iowa.  She passed away, Thursday, August 20, 2020 at the Boone County Hospital in Boone, Iowa.  A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at the Schroeder-Reimers Memorial Chapel, Sixth and Marshall Streets, Boone, […]

On Sunday, the Iowa Department of Public Health identified 617 new cases of COVID-19, a decrease from the 843 positive coronavirus tests reported twenty-four hours earlier.  Iowa has had over 56,000 cases of COVID-19 and 1,034 Iowans have died from coronavirus:  13 on Saturday, with two of those in Polk County and another in Dallas […]