Month: March 2022

The Iowa Department of Education reports four-year graduations rates for the class of 2021 dropped slightly in the wake of the pandemic. The Department’s Information Bureau Chief, Jeff Pennington, says two factors impacted the numbers. […]

The pandemic wasn’t just lethal to many Iowans who caught COVID-19, but it’s also feared to be part of what’s driving up Iowa’s cancer death rate. Many people have put off regular screenings in the […]

The Iowa House has approved a bill that would require testing for radon gas in Iowa schools. The legislation is named in honor of Gail Orcutt, a retired teacher who worked in Waterloo, Norwalk and […]

A Mason City man who was reported missing has been found dead. Mason City police late last month had said they were looking for 38-year-old Travis Kummer, who had been reported missing to police on […]

Six teenagers are now charged in Monday’s shootings outside Des Moines East High School that left one boy dead and two young women hurt. Investigators say shots were fired by multiple shooters from multiple vehicles. […]

This will be the Sunday to “spring ahead” for Daylight Saving Time and a legislator who’s a vocal critic of flipping the clock twice a year has won another round of voting in the Iowa […]

The U.S. Department of Labor says it has recovered unpaid wages for workers at a Sioux City meat processing plant. The Labor Department says their investigation found the Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing failed to […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican, is partnering with a Georgia Senator who’s a Democrat to seek more permanent funding for a government program that trains dogs to detect animal diseases. “They use some of […]

A legislative committee has voted to temporarily delay implementing a new state rule governing the care of livestock after major Iowa farm groups objected. The rule was originally scheduled to go into effect April 1. […]