Monona County News

Communication problems during a deadly June tornado have prompted the Monona County Sheriff's Office to hasten the purchase of new equipment to boost radio signal power throughout the county.

She's looking at more than 20 counts of animal abuse and abandonment, which in Iowa are not felonies, but rather misdemeanors.

An Iowa woman is accused of breeding dogs, abusing them and then dumping them on the side of the road to fend for themselves.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A Mapleton woman accused in the deaths of more than 20 dogs in Nebraska is now facing charges for a similar discovery in western Iowa.

A Mapleton, IA woman accused in the deaths of more than 20 dogs in Nebraska, is now facing charges for a similar discovery in Monona County.

Hours after her arrest, NTV News uncovers new details about the woman police believe is responsible for the death of 23 dogs found in a cornfield in Grand Island.

The Northwest Iowa School Preparedness Coalition for Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools will hold two training sessions on Mondayand Saturday, Sept.

SMITHLAND, Iowa -- Police say a 16-year-old Mapleton girl was driving between 90-100 mph when she crashed her parents' car in Smithland, Iowa, Wednesday evening during a high-speed police chase.

Siouxland law enforcement is asking for your help in locating a pickup that might be involved with the abandoning of more than 25 diseased dogs.

ONAWA, Iowa -- Friends Karter Vermeys, 10, and Caleb Clemon, 9, couldn't resist scrambling up high onto the steps of a mammoth Terra-Gator fertilizer spreader Thursday afternoon.

ONAWA, Iowa -- Friends Karter Vermeys, 10, and Caleb Clemon, 9, couldn't resist scrambling up high onto the steps of a mammoth Terra-Gator fertilizer spreader Thursday afternoon.

Two people were injured after strong winds ripped through a state park in western Iowa on Sunday.

A recent tornado warning demonstrated that Cherokee's aging sirens are inadequate and three need to be replaced, according to Aimee Barritt, Cherokee County emergency management coordinator, in comments to the ...

A violent storm front that swept through western Iowa last week underscores the importance of public education on what to do and what not to do during a potentially lethal storm, according to Aimee Barritt, ...

The Boy Scouts have decided to rebuild the Little Sioux Scout Ranch, where four Scouts died and more than 40 were injured in a tornado last week, Scout officials said.

The string of catastrophes bedeviling Iowans in the past three weeks also has been a baptism for Gov.

On Wednesday morning, the state issued the following statement updating areas of concern, available flood shelters, road closures and other information about the response to the Floods of 2008.

Boy Scout Aaron Eilerts' dedication to community service will live on, Iowa Gov.

Frightened scouts huddled in a shelter as a tornado tore through their western Iowa campground, killing four boys and injuring 48 other scouts and staff who just a day earlier had gone through an emergency ...

Iowa Gov. Chet Culver called the Boy Scouts at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch heroes for coming to the aid of other boys after a tornado flattened their camp site north of Little Sioux, killing four.