Year: 2021

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week the appointment of Terry Cosby as Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service. Cosby started his career with the agency in 1979 as a student trainee in […]

An officer has testified that the man accused of killing college student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 led investigators to the field where her body was found. Pamela Romero was an Iowa City police officer two […]

Governor Kim Reynolds asked Republican legislators to pass a bill to prohibit transgender athletes from competing in girls sports, but House Speaker Pat Grassley said they ran out of time. “We just had a lot […]

The Republican-led Iowa legislature passed a second round of election law changes this week, including limits on who can take someone else’s absentee ballot to the county auditor’s office. Senator Roby Smith, a Republican from […]

A Monona County jury has found a Mapleton teenager guilty of second degree murder for shooting another teen to death early last year. The jury’s deliberations lasted less than three hours to decide the case […]

Leaders of Iowa’s dairy industry are praising the state legislature for passing a pair of bills before adjourning to address the hauling of milk and also what are known as anaerobic digesters. Mitch Schulte, executive […]

Iowa will no longer be the only state that uses property taxes to finance its mental health system. After weeks of negotiations, Republicans in the legislature now have a compromise tax plan that includes that […]

Republicans in the Iowa Senate have voted for what is likely the final version of a bill that would increase liability protection for police and raise the penalties for rioting that causes property damage. Republican […]

Sibley Fire Chief Ken Huls says three of the rail cars that caught fire Sunday afternoon when a trail derailed in his community are still on fire this afternoon. “Right now they’re dismantling what rail […]

Authorities are investigating a weekend accident involving a sport utility vehicle and golf cart that left a Marshalltown man dead in northeast Iowa. According to Grundy County sheriff’s officials, 56-year-old Jon Espenscheid suffered fatal injuries […]

Authorities have released the names of the teenagers involved in a single-vehicle accident that left one dead and three others injured in Black Hawk County over the weekend. All four teenagers were from Dunkerton. Authorities […]

A recent cancer patient returned to a Sioux City hospital today to give a special thank you to the nurses who took care of him. Russ Gutheridge of Aurelia and his wife released 50 white […]

Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne is sponsoring a bill designed to force big corporations to disclose how many jobs they outsource to other countries and if they’re using so-called tax havens in other countries to avoid […]

Some livestock producers in Iowa saw little or no financial aid during the latest round of federal COVID-19 relief payments. The Iowa Cattlemen’s Association is sending a letter to U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding […]

Former Iowa football coach Jerry Burns has died at the age of 94. Burns served as an Iowa assistant football coach under Forest Evashevski from 1954-60. He served as Iowa’s head football coach from 1961-65. […]

State Auditor Rob Sand is investigation “potential overpayments” the Scott County Auditor approved for election workers. Scott County Auditor Roxanna Moritz approved increasing pay for workers in the June, 2020 Primary Election to $15 an […]

The Iowa House has given final approval to a bill that immediately removes the time limit for filing criminal charges against people accused of sexually abusing a child. During House debate today, Representative Cherielynn Westrich […]