Month: February 2022

Education issues — including a big budget decision for Iowa’s 327 public school districts — have dominated debate at the Iowa Capitol this week. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law that […]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is joining Iowa State University on a project to document and help endangered turtle species increase their numbers. The DNR’s Karen Kinkead says the Blanding’s turtles don’t mature and […]

A coalition of environmentalists and land owners is seeking a meeting with Governor Kim Reynolds, hoping she’ll intervene and block the Iowa Utilities Board from granting eminent domain so carbon pipeline developers can acquire land […]

Republicans in the Iowa House have passed their plan to shrink the personal income tax to a single rate of 4% and erase the state tax on retirement income. It’s nearly identical to the plan […]

Iowa’s Attorney General has reached a settlement with a Florida company that was accused of sending mailers that appeared to be from government agencies. Attorney General Tom Miller says Centurion Filing Services and owner Dean […]

A House committee has approved a bill to classify most of Iowa PBS archived content as public record, giving anyone access to it. “The ultimate goal of this bill is to make sure that Iowans […]

The fans are back at the Iowa High School Wrestling Championships in Des Moines. An event that draws as many as 75 thousand fans was limited to fewer than four thousand fans per session in […]

The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of an Earlville man found guilty of killing his wife with a corn rake. Todd Mullis was convicted by a jury in September of 2019 of […]