Ocheyedan News

Iowa farm fields dried out Friday and farmers hope that the corn and soybeans that are still in the fields will follow.

An Ocheyedan windfarm is approved for funding through the Iowa Economic Development Board.

The recent allocation of $525,000 in state grant money will help fund a Dickinson County Trails project aiming to use abandoned railway to connect Dickinson and Osceola counties.

" Iowa GOP lawmakers unveiled a proposal that includes an array of tax incentives and policies they say would reduce the number of Iowans without health insurance and drive down the cost of premiums.

A key senate committee starts picking through a plan to revamp the nation's heath care.

A northwest Iowa lawmaker has joined an effort to "draft" Terry Branstad into Iowa's 2010 gubernatorial race.

Citing the need to change course away from excessive government spending and legislation that kills jobs, state Senator David Johnson has announced he will seek re-election in 2010.

Frederick "Fred" Verne Kearney, age 81, passed away on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 surrounded by his family at St.

After nearly a dozen years of planning and negotiating, the final hurdles are being cleared to convert an abandoned Lakes area railroad into part of the area's trails system.

Republican state Sen. Pat Ward begins chemotherapy in two weeks for an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan, has been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a kidney cancer.

It's the final few days of school for many KELOLAND districts, but one Iowa school will close for good after classes Friday.

Tonight in "Take a Trip with Tom", we are heading to Iowa. That's right Jessica; I can guarantee the corn growing in a field in northwest Iowa is without a doubt, the tallest corn in the state.

Areas west and south of Spencer had a brief, but rocky, patch of severe weather Wednesday night.

A committee set up in opposition to the $120.3 million Nederland ISD bond issue proposal on the May 9 ballot recently requested records from the Nederland school district a and met what its members said was resistance.

Some Iowa county recorders say they have contemplated refusing to give a marriage license to gay couples who walk into the office, but so far none is vowing to do so.

Boy Scout Troop 144 from Holstein will host this years Thundercloud District Spring Camporee.