The Boone Boys Swimming team took down two long standing records on Tuesday night as the 400yard Freestyle team broke the school record (held since 2002) and the pool record (held since 1987) with a winning time of 3:19.15. Warren Williams, Carson Mueggenberg, Isaac Clark and Simon Enabnit are part of the team.

DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Warning for most of Iowa due to the very cold temperature and windy conditions. …Life Threatening Wind Chills into Early Next Week… Northwest winds have ushered in Arctic cold air with current temperatures well below zero and wind chills in the 30s and 40s […]

BOONE, Iowa—The National Weather Service has issued the second Winter Storm Warning affecting Central Iowa this week. While clean-up for the first multi-inch snowfall has been ongoing, the second event begins Thursday and will continue Friday. The second storm will be followed by bitter cold and dangerous windchills. URGENT – WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather […]

BOONE, Iowa—Boone Public Works has put the city’s Snow Ordinance in effect for residential area effective 9:00 p.m. tonight, Monday, January 8th. That means no parking on residential streets after 9:00 p.m. or vehicles will be ticketed and towed. The Snow Ordinance will be in effect at 11:00 p.m. for the Downtown and West Boone […]

BOONE, Iowa—The first baby born in 2024 in the Family Birth Center at Boone County Hospital (BCH) was baby Ember Azaela who was born on January 2, 2024, at 3:07 p.m.  She weighed 6 pounds, 12.5 ounces and was 17.75 inches long.  Proud parents are Victoria Gordon and Cannion Bill.  The delivering OB staff and […]

BOONE, Iowa—Friends of the Ledges counted 204 participants for the First Day Hike at the Ledges State Park Monday. However, there were many more joining the First Day Hike on many of the trails featured at the Ledges. The First Day Hike at the Ledges started from the Oak Woods picnic area at 11:00 and […]

BOONE, Iowa—Outgoing Boone Mayor John Slight delivered the Oath of Office to new Mayor Elijah Stines during a ceremony Friday in the Council Chambers at Boone City Hall. Slight has wrapped up 20 years as Boone’s Mayor. Stines will be resigning his 3rd Ward Council seat and the Council will need to determine if they […]

BOONE, Iowa—Plans are being developed for a milestone for the Ledges State Park. Thursday night, staff members and representatives of the “Friends of the Ledges” took time to pass along information about the celebration of the dedication of the park in November 1924. Andy Bartlett, Manager at the Ledges State Park presented information on the […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—Extreme drought is expanding in Iowa. This week’s U-S drought monitor map shows new areas of extreme drought in Southern and Southwest Iowa. It adds to extreme drought conditions in Eastern, Northeast, and Southeast Iowa. There is also a pocket of near-drought conditions in the northwest corner of the state. Ninety-nine percent of […]

BOONE, Iowa—Boone Mayor John Slight is concluding 20 years as Boone’s Mayor. Slight did not seek re-election this year, saying it’s time for others to handle the business of the city. Several department heads congratulated the Mayor and former City Employees returned to congratulated the outgoing Mayor. Former City Administrator Luke Nelson, now Administrator in […]