by Dar Danielson | Dec 31, 2015 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
Thousands of Hawkeye fans filled the Los Angeles Convention Center last night. The black and gold clad Hawkeye fans watched the cheer squad and listened to the marching band as they get ready for Friday’s Rose Bowl game. While the convention center was filled,...
by Dar Danielson | Dec 31, 2015 | Education, News, Top Story
University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld is mixing business with pleasure on his trip to California for the Rose Bowl game. In an interview Wednesday with Radio Iowa at the downtown Los Angeles hotel where he is staying, Harreld says one of the first things...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 31, 2015 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Weather
2015 will rank among the wettest year in the 143 years that Iowa weather records have been kept. There are still a few hours left in the year and State Climatologist Harry Hillaker is close to having all the calculations done. “Probably the seventh wettest year,...
by Matt Kelley | Dec 31, 2015 | Human Interest, News
A bell-ringing ceremony on the state capitol grounds this morning is an annual ritual with decades of history behind it. The Peace Bell that was a gift to Iowa from our sister state in Japan will be rung to bid farewell to the old year and to ring in 2016. Iowa State...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 30, 2015 | News, Politics & Government
Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie wrapped up a two-day campaign swing through Iowa with a nearly two-hour-long “town hall” meeting tonight in Waukee. “You all say this to me, at least you have in the beginning: ‘You’re in...