Category Archives: Torch News

Des Moines’ city council is expected to approve tonight a 21-thousand dollar per year pay increase for the mayor’s job – which currently pays 30-thousand dollars. The measure would a...

Iowa’s Revenue Estimating Conference says it expects the state to take in more than 7 billion dollars in the fiscal year that starts in July.  The estimate is slightly down from what it pre...

The head of DHS is defending switching the state from Medicaid to managed care, and shutting down two state mental health facilities.  Charles Palmer told a senate panel the department was facing...

Extra police will be out on the streets today for St. Patrick’s Day.  Each law enforcement agency has come up with an independent plan for traffic enforcement, and they’re expected to...

A former Des Moines police officer who got less than two years in prison for severely beating a man during a traffic stop should get another 12 years tacked on to his sentence…that’s the ...

Des Moines’ main post office has been cited for OSHA violations.  A federal investigation of the United States Postal Service office found problems with powered industrial vehicles, tugs an...

Polk County is teaming up with the Des Moines Area Religious Council to open a food pantry on Euclid Ave.  Families and individuals and pop by once a month to get a 4-day supply of food and nones...

An arbitrator is siding with state workers who gave the thumbs down to a state plan that would have made them pay up to 15 percent of their monthly healthcare premiums.  Instead, the arbitrator o...

Cities and counties across Iowa are trying to figure out how to spend new road and bridge repair funds generated by the increase in the state’s fuel tax.  Roughly half the funds go to the s...

Iowa State is the third seed in the NCAA South Region tournament on Thursday, taking on UAB. UNI is the fifth seed in the East Region, facing Wyoming on Friday, while The University of Iowa is the 7th...