Madison County, IA

MADISON COUNTY, Iowa — A high-speed chase through northeast Nebraska ends with a man facing felony charges in two counties. The Stanton County Sheriff's Office says 31-year-old Nathaniel Gnewuch of Norfolk was spotted by a deputy in Stanton spinning a pickup and then driving recklessly around some grain bins.

To date, 82,217,041 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 — and over 1 million have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of the highest known infections rates in the world. In the Des Moines-West Des Moines metropolitan area, located in Iowa, a total of 168,819 […]

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The Sioux City Musketeers have won the Clark Cup Championship for the fourth time in Musketeer history.   According to a release from the United States Hockey League (USHL), the Muskies were victorious over the Madison Capitols on Saturday with a score of two to one in overtime.   The […]

After adding over 702,000 new cases throughout the last week, the U.S. now has more than 81.9 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 990,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise at a faster rate. In the past week, there were an average […]

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Inc. announced Friday that it has laid off 92 employees at its nacelle assembly facility in Hutchinson and 171 in Fort Madison, Iowa, where blades are manufactured. The company said the “temporary hibernation” will commence in June 2022 and July 2022, respectively....

FT. MADISON, Iowa (AP) — The Siemens Gamesa wind-energy plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, will close down while the company waits for new orders. A plant in Hutchinson, Kansas, will also close. Officials with the company announced Friday that most employees at the two plants will be laid off.

An Iowa nursing home that’s mired in bankruptcy and been hit with almost $40,000 in fines this year is now facing an additional $85,225 in fines for poor quality care. Last December, the QHC Facilities chain that operates the QHC Winterset-North nursing home, along with nine other skilled-nursing facilities or assisted-living centers in Iowa, filed […] The post Mired in bankruptcy and fines, Winterset care facility is fined another $85,000 appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.

Since the first case of the omicron variant was detected in the U.S., new daily cases of COVID-19 have hit new highs. To date, 81,519,474 Americans are confirmed to have been infected with the virus — and over 1 million have died as a result. On a per capita basis, the U.S. has one of […]

Today we embarked from Missouri to Iowa. It was only 167 miles but took almost 4 hours due to most of the drive was all rural backroads. We were very happy to see the campground in Winterset, it is a city park in a quaint little town just south of Des Moines.