Council Bluffs News

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Council Bluffs police are looking for a robber who sprayed himself with pepper spray.

Speaking Wednesday at a news conference, the Democrats who run the House and Senate also expressed doubt that proposals to expand gambling in Iowa would get far this session.

If you ask your kids a how to get to Sesame Street? They'll probably tell you, you can find it here in Sioux City at the Tyson Event Center.

State leaders are hoping Iowa can build its way out of a recession. Much of that hope rests with the federal government - the promise of hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild Iowa's disaster-damaged ...

A 15-year-old Council Bluffs girl has died after contracting meningitis. Donn Dierks of the Council Bluffs Health Department says Ashley Renee Andreasen likely contracted the illness over winter break.

Despite a state budget crisis and a crumbling national economy, Iowa legislators will nonetheless take on one of the most expensive problems in state history _ flood recovery.

No one is sure of the price tag, but all agree it's enormous. And it comes at a time when Gov. Chet Culver is cutting the current budget and legislators are facing a shortfall in the upcoming budget that could top $600 million.

'There couldn't be a worse time for this to happen,' said state Sen. Wally Horn, D-Cedar Rapids. 'So here we are. It's just difficult.'

Parents with children at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs should be getting a letter concerning the recent death of a 15-year-old student.

It's that time of year when temperatures can fall well below zero. But, for Siouxland livestock producers that doesn't mean they get to stay inside where it's warm.

A suspected robber of a Council Bluffs, Iowa, Quik Shop lead police on a pursuit through north Omaha Saturday morning.

Police said two armed robberies in Council Bluffs on Friday appear to be connected.

Detectives are looking into possible connections between a series of robberies in Omaha and Council Bluffs that happened just a few hours apart.

Plans calling for Iowa courts to enlist the help of private collection agencies to recoup delinquent debt from scofflaws are past due.

A 12-year-old girl who went missing form Council Bluffs has turned herself in after seeing her photo broadcast on TV.

Authorities say a western Iowa girl who had been missing for nearly two weeks has been found and is safe.

Council Bluffs Police are looking for the man who held up the Quality Inn & Suites at 35th & West Broadway early Sunday morning.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing girl from the Crescent, Iowa area.

An early morning car crash claims the lives of two Council Bluffs teenagers. Another young man was injured, but is expected to be okay.

Two people are dead after the car they were riding in crashed into a pole in Council Bluffs.

An 8-year-old Iowa boy is killed after being hit by a truck, while walking along the highway.

Beaten just feet from his house, a robber attacks a man out shopping for Christmas.