The deadline to vote for your favorite student design for Iowa’s new education license plate is now two weeks away. Department of Education director McKenzie Snow says the current plate has been used since 1997. “That’s why the Iowa Department of...
Des Moines police say a drug dog found more than 50 pounds of marijuana at the Des Moines International Airport Thursday after they received an anonymous tip the pot was coming in on a plane from Las Vegas. Investigators were able to identify the luggage believed to...
TSA spokesperson Jessica Maylesays the state’s largest airport saw an unfortunate increase in a dangerous category this past year. “Across the country overall we saw fewer handguns, but unfortunately here in Iowa we did see more this year than last...
The number of people flying out of the state’s busiest airport went up again last year after cracking the three-million passenger mark for the first time in 2023. Airport spokesperson Sarah Hoodjer says they welcomed 3,176,952 passengers, a 2.6% increase from...
Several improvement projects at Iowa’s commercial airports are moving ahead on schedule. The DOT’s Shane Wright says the governor allotted 100 million federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan to the state’s Commercial Aviation Infrastructure...
