DES MOINES, Iowa—Gov. Reynolds today announced she has appointed Chris Cournoyer as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. Cournoyer, a resident of LeClaire, Iowa, was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2018. She chaired the inaugural Technology committee, from which position she wrote and managed the legislation that made Iowa the sixth state in the nation to […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Conservation staff has reported a positive case of Avian Influenza in a bird discovered at the Don Williams Recreational Area last week. Conservation staff released this information on the Boone County Conservation Facebook page today: Last week staff had spotted a goose out at the Don Williams Lake that was in […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 HPAI) in a commercial layer flock in O’Brien County, Iowa. This is Iowa’s eighth detection of H5N1 HPAI within poultry […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its federal partners have been monitoring for the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Iowa’s wild birds since early 2022. After nearly a year without detections in sick or dead birds, Iowa has seen a sharp jump in affected waterfowl across the state mostly, north of […]

BOONE, Iowa—Neighbors of the now-vacant Page Elementary School have likely noticed that the playground equipment is gone. The building’s new owner – The Capstone Group, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization – plans torepurpose the abandoned campus into an apartment building starting early in 2025 with 28 units that will not receive government rent assistance. The company […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Weather Service Office in Des Moines has provided updated information about freezing rain that is expected to lead to dangerous travel this evening into Saturday. (contributed information, NWS)

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DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has released the Weekly Fuel report and the price of regular unleaded gasoline held steady, averaging $2.70 across Iowa according to AAA. Crude Oil Summary The price of global crude oil rose this week on the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) by $.13 per barrel over […]

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