State News

A sendoff is planned for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Southeastern Community College in West Burlington for an Iowa National Guard unit from Middletown. The 831st Engineer Vertical Construction Company will first head to Texas […]

Iowa’s unemployment rate increased slightly in August, the first uptick in several months. Iowa Workforce Development executive director Beth Townsend says conditions on the national level factor in. “It looks like the national economy is […]

Senator Chuck Grassley says he’s seen political bias in the U.S. justice system over the past eight years, but Grassley is rejecting proposals from fellow Republicans who’ve called for shutting down the FBI. “Anybody that […]

A Davenport man has been found guilty of kidnapping and murdering a ten year old Breasia Terrell in July of 2020. Scott County Judge Henry Latham heard the evidence against 51-year-old Henry Dinkins in a […]

The new drought monitor shows the same old story for Iowa, the drought conditions are not getting better. Tim Hall of the Iowa DNR says the areas that didn’t get some of last week’s rain […]

Over three dozen Iowa artists will open their workspaces to visitors in a couple of weeks. Glen Ellickson and his wife Darla, who’s a silversmith and a goldsmith, are the founders of the Northeast Iowa […]

Nearly a century after she first appeared in print, girl-detective Nancy Drew is still thrilling young readers — and the original writer of the mystery series was an Iowa woman. Mildred Augustine Benson was a Ladora […]

Thousands of Iowa elementary schoolers will be improving their physical and mental health — as well as their self-esteem — through a program called the Kids Heart Challenge. Amy Knoll, school engagement director for the […]

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she favors development of pipelines that could make the ethanol industry carbon neutral, but Haley says landowners who don’t want the pipelines on their property should not be forced […]

More than 80 artists from across Iowa and around the Midwest will be displaying their works along the scenic Mississippi riverfront in Davenport this weekend at the Riverssance Festival of Fine Art. Ben Gougeon events […]