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Impact of federal budget cuts could mean more rural hospital closures, less money for people served by food banks & English language learner courses in Iowa

Bret Hayworth

Impact of federal budget cuts could mean more rural hospital closures, less money for people served by the Food Bank of Siouxland & for English language learner courses in Storm Lake, Iowa, and Iowa man dies in fireworks accident.

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Possible changes to Endangered Species Act could broaden habitat loss in Iowa

Alejandra Perez

The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate habitat destruction and redefine harm under the endangered species act.

Lynn Evans is a Republican state senator from Cherokee County, Iowa.

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Iowa state lawmaker Evans may run for 4th District Congress, another mural on way for Sioux City

Bret Hayworth

KWIT Local Newscast

Newscast 2.27.2025: Sioux City Schools teachers seeking 3.2% wage hike; Proposals in Nebraska would give free school lunches & in Iowa would change foods available to SNAP recipients

Bret Hayworth

KWIT Local Newscast

NEWS 4.18.23: IA SNAP benefit concerns, legislative updates, burn ban, crop report and more

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NEWS 4.4.23: Nebraska death penalty decision, Iowa restructures government, porcupine visits Sioux City, and more

Iowa and Nebraska road conditions at 3 p.m. on Thursday, February 16, 2023

KWIT Local Newscast

NEWS 2.16.23

Winter storm, death-penalty revisited in Iowa, Kingsley Police Chief arrested and more

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NEWS 10.13.21: IA C19 Rates Down in Iowa; Up in Woodbury County, Obese Children, and More

The Iowa Department of Public Health added 94 additional deaths due to complications of COVID-19, including one more in Woodbury County.The deaths…

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Gov. Reynolds Chooses New DHS Director, Iowa SNAP Benefits Could Change

090519 404Governor Kim Reynolds has appointed a new Iowa Department of Human Services director a couple of months after she abruptly ousted Jerry Foxhoven…