Agency News

Tom King was named Volunteer of the Year by the Seneca Area Agency on Aging at a senior forum in Ottumwa last week.

City leaders in Agency, Iowa are looking for other sources of revenue after receiving notification that the city won't get any property tax income.

Betty Nollen of Cedar Rapids wipes down a drawer as she cleans flood-damaged filing cabinets and other furniture at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency in southwest Cedar Rapids in late September.

Senator Tom Harkin today announced $81,320,729.72 in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency for Iowa.

The city will still have a seniors' meal site if plans go as expected. Seneca Area Agency on Aging announced Wednesday the Ottumwa Senior Meal Site will relocate to the Salvation Army's new site at 725 W. ...

EPA has awarded $382,000 to the City of Ottumwa, Iowa, for ongoing construction of a multi-phased combined sewer separation project.

On Thursday, Governor Chet Culver and the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that residents and business owners who suffered damages from the tornados and flooding in disaster-declared counties now ...

The 59th annual reunion of the descendants of Dave and Mary Hiner was held Aug. 31 at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Marshalltown.

Volunteers, from left, Wayne Demorest, Larry Cofer and Jay Oakes, all of Ottumwa, and Tom Leinhauser of Agency hoist parts into place as they put the final pieces on the new playground at Sycamore Park near The ...

Parents of students open-enrolled from the Cardinal to the Fairfield school district expressed their concerns about the new bus stop location to the Fairfield Community School Board of Directors Monday.

The British government has admitted another data loss blunder: Its bankruptcy agency has lost a laptop carrying personal information on more than 100 former company directors.

Joe Selix, left, and Ab Yochum discuss "old memories" from their days on the Ottumwa Fire Department.

Sept. 10: To Leah and Johnny Cox of Ottumwa, a girl; Lacey Dudziak of Ottumwa, a boy; To Tiffany and Thaddeus Sarver of Ottumwa, a boy; To Shannon and Ryan Woods of Ottumwa, a boy.

Iowa state and local agencies and certain private non-profit organizations that may be eligible for federal disaster assistance have until September 12 to submit a request for public assistance funding.

The treated water then is discharged into the Mississippi River . The project is estimated to cost $60 million over the next 17 years, according to the article.

We offer this bit of contrary evidence to those snide remarks you heard during the political conventions about how well the federal government works: Here's how a federal security mission after Sept.

The city of Keokuk plans to fight U.S. Environmental Projection Agency efforts to have the city separate its sanitary and storm sewers.

There is no price tag on it yet, but the University of Iowa athletic department is still dealing with a lot of leftover problems from the flood of 2008.

Some Ottumwa Boy Scouts hope the fourth time is the charm for one of the city's landmarks.

The city's airport will be on its way to a new name Tuesday if the City Council approves.