Ackley News

Monday morning, a Butler County judge sentenced 24-year-old Ashley Anderson of Ackley to up to five years in prison.

After a year of severe drought, we go through one of the wettest months of May in local history.

Iowa rivers overflowed Tuesday after many communities in the state received up to 8 inches of rain in just three days, but a lull in the wet weather was giving many local officials time to regroup ahead of more rain that could hit and bring major flooding.

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PARKERSBURG, Iowa - Authorities have recovered the body of a man whose vehicle was swept off the road by flood water in northeast Iowa.

Authorities have recovered the body of an Ackley man after flood waters swept his vehicle off a road in Parkersburg on Monday.

By Pat Racette New Hartford, a town known for flooding, had its fifth highest crest since 1947 Monday, yet managed to fend off the high waters that came from Parkersburg and Ackley along the Beaver Creek River.

Rain forecast to fall this week over Iowa's already swollen river basins has residents bracing for the first significant floods in three years.

In northeast Iowa, it appears a 71-year-old Ackley man has died after driving his sport utility vehicle over rapidly moving water Monday morning.

An Ackley man is missing and believed to still be in his vehicle under water in a creek with swift current near Parkersburg after being swept off the road.

An Ackley police officer tried to pull over 20-year-old Jacob Catherwood because of an equipment violation, but he refused to stop.