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The Ames Community School District School Board met Monday, June 16, and heard reports on 2024-25 goals, new online learning options and more.

Ames School Board hears report on goals, new online learning options

by Kyle Werner, Reporter
Published June 17, 2025

School may have let out for the summer, but the Ames School Board met Monday to review how goals for the previous school year were met, new online learning options that will begin as soon as this fall. Ames...

City council okays Campustown event requests

City council okays Campustown event requests

by Bill Monroe, Reporter
Published June 11, 2025

The Ames City Council granted Ames Main Street a suspension of the city code to allow alcohol to be served where minors are present for Main Street’s Summertime Series event to be held in Campustown...

On game day, those caught illegally parking on streets near Jack Trice Stadium will pay a larger fine.

City council approves game day parking fine increase

by Bill Monroe, Reporter
Published June 11, 2025
The Ames City Council approved an ordinance increasing parking fines around Jack Trice Stadium during home football game days and during special events in the area.
Story County IT seeks more efficiency

Story County IT seeks more efficiency

by Jack McClellan, Reporter
Published June 11, 2025

Story County’s IT department has been making efforts to implement more affordable and efficient technologies into the county’s functions. The endeavors are detailed in a report covering the past...

Horticulture professor and chair Ajay Nair plants bell peppers at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in June 2024.

First year of farming at solar power site shows promise, ISU researchers say

by ISU News Service
Published June 6, 2025
Iowa State researchers studying how solar energy production and agriculture can co-exist say the first year of a four-year study showed produce farming can work amid solar panels.
Story County Board of Supervisors

Nonprofits report to supervisors on impact of grant money

by Jack McClellan, Reporter
Published June 4, 2025
ACCESS and Nevada Food at First shared an overview of how they’re serving vulnerable parts of Story County communities.
Ames has abundance of false alarms

Ames has abundance of false alarms

by Bill Monroe, Reporter
Published May 28, 2025

Responding to false alarms is a growing concern for Ames Police. According to Ames city records, in 2023 dispatchers answered 585 security system burglary or holdup alarm calls at local businesses,...

On game day, those caught illegally parking on streets near Jack Trice Stadium will pay a larger fine.

Game day parking fines near Jack Trice increase

by Bill Monroe, Reporter
Published May 28, 2025

People fined for parking illegally near Jack Trice Stadium on home football days will pay a higher price for doing so this fall. The Ames City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to raise parking tickets...

Associate professor Hua Bai (left), senior in genetics Wren Muryzn and adjunct assistant professor Ping Kang in Kang's lab inside the Molecular Biology Building.

With student help, researchers find factor linking longer maturation to longer life

by ISU News Service
Published May 28, 2025
An Iowa State University research team identified how developmental delays lead to longer lifespans in fruit flies, a potential model for exploring human longevity.
The Furman Aquatic Center, 1635 13th St., will further delay its 2025 opening.

Furman Aquatic Center opening delayed again

by City of Ames
Published May 27, 2025
Due to the unseasonably cool temperatures, Furman Aquatic Center will further delay its opening with a new anticipated open date of Friday, May 30.
A general area near the zoning request.

County considers rezoning property bordering Ames for heavy industrial uses

by Jack McClellan, Reporter
Published May 21, 2025

The Story County Board of Supervisors began the process at its Tuesday meeting to rezone a property near Highway 30 to allow concrete crushing, manufacturing and recycling on the site. The 35 acres...

Ames Community School District offering summer meals, breakfast in fall

Ames Community School District offering summer meals, breakfast in fall

by Kyle Werner, Reporter
Published May 20, 2025
Breakfast and lunch will be provided to all children in Ames for the summer of 2025 thanks to the Ames Community School District partnering with the Summer Food Service Program.