Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval rating has plummeted to 28%, according to a new Suffolk University/USA Today poll. That is lower than her four predecessors in their first years. It’s also lower than the approval rating for President Joe Biden, who sits at 38%, and former President ...

If inmates of the Webster County Jail see a corrections officer reaching for a black glove, they had better start behaving. Coming in contact with those gloves could be a truly shocking experience. The gloves can deliver an electrical shock ranging from 210 volts to 320 volts. A corrections ...

Like Christmas trees and turkey dinners, the red kettles and bell ringers of The Salvation Army are a traditional element of the holiday season. Just about everyone has seen the kettles and heard the jingling bells over the years. And hopefully, just about everyone has put some donations in ...

Since the earliest days in our state’s history, Iowans have understood that schools are important to the proper development of youngsters to help ready them to assist in building a bright future for their communities and state. Not long after farmsteads began to fill Iowa’s landscape, they ...

There appears to be a shiny steel aircraft taking off right next to the entrance to Fort Dodge Regional Airport. No, some hotshot pilot did not decide to use the airport’s parking lot and driveway as a runway. The big metal structure is the centerpiece for what will soon be a new entrance ...

Iowa is typically not a place people would consider to be a hotbed of solar energy production. That seems like a better description of sunny Arizona, not Iowa. But some experts who work in the solar energy field have calculated that the sunlight that shines down on our state can indeed be ...