Monthly Blood Donation 'Thank-You': "My name is Jessica. I have 3 kids and I was severely anemic, and even though I haven’t gotten my results back yet to see if it helped my hemoglobin, I am …
The 25th annual Book Basket auction is coming to the Cherokee Public Library! The silent fundraiser will begin on Friday, Nov. 15th and concludes at noon on Saturday, December 7th. At …
Thanks to a partnership between the Cherokee Community School District (CCSD) and the Cherokee County Conservation Board (CCCB), a day was spent giving students opportunities to experience the …
Press Release: On 11/6/24 at 11:25 am the CFD was dispatched for a report of a gas leak and small fire inside a restaurant at 122 E Main St. in Cherokee. R2 went enroute at 11:26 with …
Cherokee County Results Live Results From Des Moines State of Iowa results Iowa election updates
Absentee voting in Buena Vista and Cherokee counties is projected to track to 2016, the last time a general election was held without a raging global pandemic. Karla Ahrendsen, the …
Donald Trump notched 4,398 voters, or 72% of the 6,105 votes cast. Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Hull, notched 4,411 votes, or 67.5% of the vote, over challenger Ryan Melton, D-Ames, who notched …
Registered Democrats have nearly halved in Buena Vista, Cherokee and other counties across Northwest Iowa over the last eight years. There are 2,633 active registered Democrats in Buena …
A federal judge on Sunday upheld the Iowa Secretary of State’s guidance to challenge the ballots of more than 2,000 Iowans listed as potential noncitizens leading into the Nov. 5 election. …
A Cherokee Chronicle Times poll on appointments at the treasurer's office
Farmers upstream of the Des Moines region are eligible for cover crop incentives as part of state legislation to improve water quality in central Iowa. The expanded incentive program, which Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Monday, is the“first of several” conservation initiatives in the Greater Des Moines Watershed Program rolling out over the […]
Zach Lahn, a businessman and farmer, won the Republican nomination for Iowa governor Tuesday with U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra and the three other GOP hopefuls conceding the race. Auditor Rob Sand, the only candidate to appear on the Democratic primary ballot, quickly secured his spot Tuesday as his party’s nominee to become Iowa governor in […]
Three quarters of Midwestern homeowners are concerned about rising home insurance premiums and 86% of homeowners surveyed in a poll released Thursday by Climate Power and the Insurance Fairness Project say elected officials should do more to reduce the cost. The poll surveyed Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas homeowners and found they largely supported policy solutions […]
Wildfires have reversed years of progress toward mitigating ozone pollution, worsening air quality and causing premature deaths, University of Iowa researchers have found. Eleven “uncontained large” wildfires were burning simultaneously across the United States as of June 12, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Halfway through 2026, more than 32,000 wildfires have swept across […]
Iowa legislators held a marathon session Saturday and Sunday to finish up the 2026 session, ending with a property tax deal and measures on warrant resolution clinics and abortion medication, as well as a budget compromise. The Iowa House began its final session at 8:31 a.m. Saturday, and gaveled out at 6:11 p.m. Sunday. In […]
With settlement talks having reached an impasse, a major lawsuit seeking $15 million in damages from Summit Carbon Solutions is heading toward trial in Delaware. In 2024, pipe manufacturer Welspun Tubular filed suit against Summit Carbon Solutions, claiming it had been commissioned by Summit to produce about 785 miles of pipe, beginning in May 2023, […]
Iowa Democrats told members of the Democratic National Committee Wednesday the national party cannot afford to lose Iowa voters — or the input of rural Midwesterners at large — as they craft the presidential nominating calendar for 2028. Scott Brennan, an Iowan who is a member of the DNC, and state Rep. Ross Wilburn, D-Ames, […]
As Iowans across the state turn their gaze toward the quality of Iowa’s waterways, student and faculty researchers at Iowa State University have developed prototype equipment to measure the nitrate levels of hard-to-reach watersheds with drones as the vehicle. What started as a senior design project has grown into a multi-year, federally funded effort to […]