Nevada News

Thousands of bicyclists will be arriving as RAGBRAI comes to Ames on Tuesday. Read special coverage of RAGBRAI in Ames with maps, schedules and events listed.

Colo will be mixing lots of food and activity with lots of history as it invites RAGBRAI riders to make a stop at the historic Reed-Niland Corner next Wednesday morning.

Next Wednesday, Nevada residents will have a chance to take part in what Nevada Zoning Official Shawn Cole says is a "once-in-a-decade opportunity." Starting around 6 a.m. RAGBRAI bikers will pedal their way ...

A South Sioux City, Nebraska, man who stabbed his girlfriend eleven times, and then himself, will spend at least 10-years behind bars.

NEW JOBS Tyson Scheidecker has joined the engineering team at Shive-Hattery in West Des Moines.

The family of a Story County boy who died last month said his death could have been prevented if the state had properly investigated claims of abuse.

Two new Disaster Recovery Centers have been opened in Story and Floyd counties. The Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are opening the DRCs to ...

The fierce weather that has rocked Ames for the past week temporarily subsided over last weekend, giving the city a chance to repair and take stock.

Strawberry lovers may be dishing up fresh, locally grown strawberries all the way into July, growers say.

These pictures were taken in Parkersburg by Jason Scanlan, who is the brother-in-law of Journal employee Emily Heim.

By Nirmalendu Majumdar/The Tribune Vickie Ayers,marketing/newsletter editor; Lee Sargent, chairman and CEO; and Phil Sargent, executive vice president, from left, talk during an interview in the company's new ...

Nevada's graduation exercises were held May 25 at the Nevada High School fieldhouse.

Election is Tuesday, June 3 * Friday, May 30 - Deadline to request that an absentee ballot be mailed to the voter.

County Farm Bureau works with area students on planting Story County Farm Bureau members recently helped elementary school children in the Nevada and Colo-Nesco school districts to learn about planting crops.

Government legislation that will require all gasoline sold in Canada to contain 5 percent ethanol by 2010 passed the House of Commons on Wednesday.

A search for her grandfather's eternal resting place led a Nevada native, Gloria Lundy to take on city hall in Kansas City, and win as noted in the Kansas City Star May 24.

An Ames man, who was arrested in February for allegedly sending an obscene video of himself to a 16-year-old girl from Nevada, was arrested last weekend for violating a no-contact order between himself and the ...

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday reversed an earlier decision in the case of three Ames men who threw a party that authorities said led to a 2005 car-pedestrian accident in which an Iowa State University ...

Ames police say they've arrested a homeless man in the stabbing death of another homeless man early Monday morning.

Police here say they've arrested a homeless man in the stabbing death of another homeless man early this morning.