Third of five UNI A-D candidates speaks publicly

The third of five finalists to become the new athletic director at the University of Northern Iowa has completed his interview. Terry Wanless is currently the AD at Sacramento State and prior to that was at North Dakota for ten years.

State track meet begins Thursday

The State high school track and field championships open a three day run in Drake Stadium on Thursday morning. The North Tama girls will be in search of a third straight 1A team title and the Redhawks are led by multiple state champions Brook and Blaire Dinsdale.

Upper Iowa looking for new athletic director

Upper Iowa University is searching for a new athletic director. Gil Cloud will leave his post this summer after six years to become a vice president for a company in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Culver vetoes bill backed by unions

Governor Chet Culver's staff sent out an advisory early this afternoon saying the governor would hold a 4 p.m. news conference today "to discuss outstanding legislation." It meant Culver had made a decision on legislation which would expand the...

Over capacity crowd

The governor's staff decided the waiting room at a health care clinic in Des Moines would be a good spot to stage a bill signing ceremony for legislation the dealt with health care. I arrived at the site by...