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(Des Moines, IA) – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a series of town hall-style meetings where local staff will provide updates on recently completed hunting and trapping seasons, discuss possible changes to hunting and trapping rules and regulations, and address other topics as requested. In the KJAN listening area, those meetings will be held:
The meetings are open to the public. Comments collected from these public meetings will be considered along with other related comments received by the Iowa DNR prior to proposing changes to hunting rules and regulations. Proposed rules will be presented to the Natural Resource Commission during a regular public meeting for consideration and additional public comment. Comments received during previous listening sessions have resulted in regulation changes, including modifying and removing areas closed to Canada goose hunting, establishing later goose season dates and increased bag limit, expanding the raccoon hunting and trapping season on private land, modifying Iowa’s antlerless deer quotas in north central and western Iowa, and extending the regular trapping season through the end of February.
Todd Bishop, chief of the Iowa DNR’s Wildlife Bureau, says “We want people to come out to these meetings, listen to the seasons reviews, ask questions and hear directly from our staff. Part of the meeting will be devoted to discussing potential rule changes and collecting feedback as we work through the rules process.”
Any person attending the public meeting that has special requirements, such as those related to mobility or hearing impairments, should contact the Iowa DNR or ADA Coordinator at 515-725-8200, Relay Iowa TTY Service 800-735-7942, or Webmaster@dnr.iowa.gov, and advise of specific needs.
Other meeting dates, times and locations include:
(Creston, IA) – Two people from Creston were arrested Tuesday afternoon. According to Creston Police, 36-year-old Vanessa Gutierrez was arrested and charged with 13-counts of Theft in the 5th Degree. Gutierrez was taken to Union County Jail, and posted $390 bond (an allowed 10% of the total $3,900 bond), and was released.
Creston Police said also, 41-year-old Reynaldo Ramirez Bravo, of Creston, was arrested on charges that include Possession of Controlled Substance/Methamphetamine-1st Offense, Theft in the 1st Degree, and Burglary in the 3rd Degree. Ramirez Bravo was taken to Union County Jail and held on a $15,000 cash-only, and $1,000 cash or surety, bonds.
MENLO, Iowa — Officials with the Xenia Rural Water District issued a boil advisory Tuesday, for customers in Menlo. Officials with the company said crews had to shut off the town’s water to fix a leaky fitting that caused a loss of pressure. Repairs were made, but the boil advisory was expected to last at least two days.
During that time, Xenia will flush the system and send samples to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for testing. To lift the advisory, two negative bacterial samples must be obtained.
Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth and food preparation while the advisory is in effect, according to the DNR. Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water. The water may be used for bathing and other similar purposes.
Read the full statement here: https://xeniawater.org/news/city-of-menlo-boil-advisory/
(An Iowa News Service report) – John Deere has recalled 245 workers in Iowa after mass layoffs. They’ll be back on the job this month and next. Prompted by weaker demand, a lagging agricultural economy and Trump administration tariffs on equipment, John Deere laid off workers across the Midwest last fall, including in Iowa.
Charlie Wishman, president of the Iowa AFL-CIO, said going back to work is a win for the workers, but also for the communities where they live. “When our communities here that are anchored by companies like John Deere, when those jobs, when those layoffs are announced,’ he said, “it doesn’t just throw the family, it throws an entire town into confusion and chaos and worry.” One hundred fifty of the recalled workers are going back to work at four Deere facilities in Waterloo.
Deere said the workers specialize in drive-train operations, tractor operations and engine works. Wishman said Deere weighed a handful of factors in deciding when to recall laid-off workers, adding that he believes the rehires will have a trickle-down effect. “To give these communities some stability, some insight and some understanding of what the future might look like for them,” he said, “it’s really, really good news.”
Some of the workers will return this month, and the rest will be back on the job in March.
(Radio Iowa) – Current Iowa law says children under 12, drivers and front seat occupants of vehicles must be belted in, but an Iowa House committee may soon consider requiring that ALL occupants in a vehicle wear a seat belt. Chaney Yeast — a lobbyist for Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines — spoke during a House subcommittee hearing on the bill.
“Motor vehicle safety has improved over time. We know those belts are standard in all the vehicles, so we think now is the time to move forward with this.” Yeast says research shows back seat passengers who aren’t wearing a seat belt can be critically injured or killed in a traffic accident.
“Hit something with the front of your car and the projectile that the passenger becomes, they can hit the back of the front seat,” Yeast said, “or over the back of the front seat through the windshield.”
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Association, 30 other states have mandatory seat belt laws for back seat passengers.
(Radio Iowa) – The governor’s bill to require screening of all future state employees, to ensure they are legally able to work in the U.S., has cleared a House subcommittee. Reynolds issued an executive order requiring checks of citizenship and immigration status in the federal government’s E-Verify and SAVE systems before people may be hired by state agencies or get a professional license from the state. The bill would make that policy state law. The bill also would deny pre-trial release to anyone arrested in Iowa who is not in the country legally.
Molly Severn is the legislative liaison for Governor Reynolds. “With millions of Biden-era illegal immigrants in our country, public safety threats are a reality in every state,” Severn said. “The governor intends to codify executive action she has already taken and build on it so that all Iowans can continue to build a life in safety and security.” The Iowa Catholic Conference and trial lawyers are raising concerns about limiting bail for illegal immigrants.
Lisa Davis-Cook with the Iowa Association for Justice says under the state constitution, all people – not just all citizens – should be eligible for bail in cases that do not involve serious crimes. “When someone is arrested that’s only an accusation,” Davis-Cook said. “They have not been convicted, so keeping them in jail before a conviction has serious consequences.”
The bill would also add more language to voter registration forms, making it clear a person who falsely claims to be a U.S. citizen on the form can be charged with election fraud and deported.
(Radio Iowa) – Seven Republicans in the Iowa Senate say they have a game plan that could lure the Chicago Bears to move the historic N-F-L franchise to Iowa. Senator Scott Webster of Bettendorf says the Quad Cities would be the most logical spot to build a new stadium.
The Bears’ ownership has talked for years about building a new stadium, with the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights the preferred location, but a bill moving through Indiana’s legislature would pave the way for a publicly financed stadium for the Bears in Gary, Indiana. The bill introduced in the Iowa Senate would make an N-F-L stadium eligible for Iowa’s Major Economic Growth Attraction or MAGA Program — with property tax breaks and refundable tax credits for the initial investment and the new jobs created, along with refunds of sales taxes paid during construction.
Webster, who was born in 1980, was alive when the Bears won the Super Bowl 40 years ago and is serving as a spokesman for the group pushing this plan.
Webster, though, closes his pitch with the title of the Bears’ Fight Song.
(Radio Iowa) – A report from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office finds a Dubuque police officer was justified in a shooting that killed a man outside a bar. The report says Officer Austin Manders was on routine patrol January 4th when he spotted a group of men fighting in the street outside the Odd Fellows Bar. All but two of the men fled as the officer stopped, and then he saw one of the men shoot the other.
Officer Manders fired at the man who than fled into the bar. Officers found Jai Lovely inside the bar unconscious with a gunshot wound to his stomach. Lovely and the victim, Cory Michael Wilson, were taken to the hospital where both later died.
Police recovered the gun used by Lovely, and the bullet recovered from Wilson’s body during the autopsy matched the gun.
(Red Oak, IA) – The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest at around 10-a.m. today (Tuesday), of 40-year-old Aaron Lucas Allen, from Red Oak. Allen was taken into custody on a Red Oak Police warrant for Driving While Suspended. He was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on bond amounting to $491.25.
(Atlantic, IA) – A regular meeting of the Atlantic School District’s Board of Education will take place beginning at 6-p.m. on Wed., Feb. 11th (2026), in the Atlantic High School Media Center. Action items on the Board’s Agenda include:
The Board will also act on the following resignations:
The Atlantic School Board will also act on recommendations to hire the following:
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