DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented Tuesday on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this time. “As drought and […]

LOCAL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALLOgden over Madrid 11-3 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALLOgden over Madrid 10-1 LOCAL SCHEDULE FOR TODAY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALLWinterset at Boone HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALLWinterset at BooneTwin Cedars at Ogden

AMES, Iowa – Working directly with farmers and community leaders, watershed coordinators are the “boots on the ground” of water quality improvement in Iowa. Coordinators meet people where conservation decisions happen – farm fields, dinner tables and community events – and work hand-in-hand with these decision-makers to achieve conservation goals and implement water quality improvement […]

The following is a press release from the City of Boone BOONE, Iowa—City administrator Bill Skare has contacted the Union Pacific Railroad, calling on the Omaha-based transportation company to review continued train blockages of street crossings and shortcomings with its complaint-reporting system. Mayor John Slight has noted that the years-long effort to build a Highway […]

CLIVE, Iowa — A Boone woman said she didn’t believe her luck after she scratched off a $100,000 lottery prize. “I ended up FaceTiming my sister and going, ‘Can you tell me? Is this true? Because I don’t believe it,’” Doreen Sawyer said on Friday as she claimed her prize at lottery headquarters in Clive. […]

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BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Roads Department will be doing some regrading on 320th Street. Boone County Engineer Jonathan Bullock says work will continue, weather permitting, until July 10th. Crews will be regrading a portion of 320th Street from US 169 to G Avenue. Road will be closed to through traffic, please plan to use alternative […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Road Department has announced that a portion of 105th Street in northern Boone County for a couple of weeks, beginning next Monday. A portion of 105th Street will be closed in Pilot Mound Township beginning Monday, June 26th for two weeks, weather dependent, for the removal and replacement of natural gas […]

LOCAL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALLBallard over Boone 1-0 Ogden over ACGC 19-5 Panorama over Madrid 19-2 and 17-7 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALLBallard over Boone 8-0 Ogden over ACGC 4-3 and 11-3 Panorama over Madrid 9-2 and 8-6 LOCAL SCHEDULE FOR TODAY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALLOgden at Madrid HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALLOgden at Madrid (6pm on KWBG)