On February 26, 2025, at approximately 4:30 PM, the Palo Alto County Sheriff’s Office arrested 18-year-old Mitchell Roy Myers of Dickens on four valid arrest warrants.
Most of Iowa is under a Red Flag Warning from noon today through six o’clock this evening, as open burning is strongly discouraged. National Weather Service meteorologist Brooke Hagenhoff says there’s a critical risk as any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
The Chicago man who knocked off the bank in Sanborn last year has plead guilty and has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
Around 6:15p Monday evening on the 24th we had our first isolated thunderstorm move through northeast of Spencer growing slightly between Ruthven and Emmetsburg before eventually dying off near the West Bend area.
A Spirit Lake man is one of the winners in the Keep Iowa Beautiful 15th Annual Photography Contest. In the Iowa Water Category, William Beardsley of Spirit Lake placed 1st Place for his picture in the “Floating Dock” category, which was also winner in the Public Favorite category, William was also Honorable Mention: in the “Window to Serenity,” Category.
Exciting developments are underway along the Des Moines River for the City of Estherville. Lexie Ruter, Executive Director of the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce, shared more details with Northwest Iowa Now.
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National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Ansorge says things are setting up for a big snow dump. “There’s a lot of moisture overrunning a frontal zone well to the south of the state and as the moisture moves up and over Iowa it’s encountering the cold air and it’ll be falling out of snow so that’s where we’re going to see a widespread snowfall, and the highest snowfall amounts for this storm will be across southern Iowa and northern Missouri where snow amounts of six to eight maybe even nine inches across parts of northern Missouri will be possible,” Ansorge says.
After a record 125 tornadoes touched down in Iowa last year, the National Weather Service is making an urgent pitch to recruit more of the state’s residents to become trained severe weather spotters.
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