Members of Iowa’s Congressional delegation are praising a move by the Biden administration to issue a last-minute emergency waiver to allow the sales of E-15 gasoline during the summer driving season. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, a […]
City staff in Dubuque are preparing for the Mississippi River to crest this weekend. John Klostermann has been in Dubuque’s Public Works department for 47 years and has been its director since 2016. His department […]
The lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Johnston says it’s unlikely the rest of Iowa will experience the kind of flooding that’s hit the 10 counties along the Mississippi River. Brad Small […]
Today is Workers Memorial Day and labor groups across the state have ceremonies planned to honor those who lost their livers on the job in the last year. The Iowa Labor Center’s Paul Iverson says […]
Iowa’s Supreme Court has ruled the Iowa Utilities Board should have considered whether operating coal plants is economical when it approved an emissions control plan from MidAmerican Energy in 2020. Environmental advocates sued the Iowa […]
The Iowa Utilities Board has approved an application for a large scale solar farm in southeast Iowa. The board has issued a certificate, so an Alliant Energy subsidiary will be able to place solar panels […]
Republicans in the legislature have settled on a more than $2.1 billion Health and Human Services budget that boosts state funding for nursing homes, mental health care and treatment for substance abuse. Senator Mark Costello, […]
The technology that helps tally the votes in the Iowa Senate tanked this week. Lawmakers typically push a green or red button on their desk to vote yes or no. That speedy system got real […]
The Iowa Utilities Board has indicated developers of an anhydrous ammonia pipeline in southeast Iowa will get a construction permit — if certain conditions are met. The proposed NuStar pipeline would connect to the Iowa […]
It was a successful return to the Drake Relays for former Logan-Magnolia standout Alex Gochenour-Brondyke. The current volunteer assistant coach at Iowa State finished with 5746 points to finish second in the heptathlon. It was […]
Northern Iowa junior Carter Morton is the first Panther to win the Drake Relays decathlon in 10 years. Morton won the pole vault and the javelin on Thursday to capture the title. His 7454 points […]
A pilot program that will study the effect of providing a monthly basic income on reducing poverty will make its first payments next month to a group of central Iowa residents. The project called UpLift […]
The Carroll County Growth Partnership is getting $200,000 from the Iowa Economic Development Authority for a proposed first-of-its-kind rural business resource center known as HUB 712. Partnerships Executive Director, Kimberly Tiefenthaler, says HUB 712 has […]
Printing the state’s 211 suicide crisis line on student I-D cards would be required under a bill getting bipartisan backing in the Iowa legislature. Senator Bill Dotzler, a Democrat from Waterloo, grew emotional as he […]
The Iowa Hawkeye baseball team takes a five game winning streak in Big Ten play on the road this weekend into Friday afternoon’s start of a three game series at Penn State. The Hawkeyes are […]
American record holder Rudy Winkler is hoping to post a good early number this evening in the hammer throw at the Drake Relays. The two-time U-S champion finished seventh at the Olympic Games in Tokyo […]
A trade group that represents the oil industry is calling on Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and seven other governors to drop their push to get gas with 15% ethanol available in the Midwest all year […]
A museum exhibit featuring a replica of a rail car used to transport Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust of World War Two opened Wednesday in Sioux City. George Linblade designed the exhibit and […]
The budget for the governor’s office is getting a half a million dollar boost under a bill Senate Republicans have approved. A spokesman for Governor Reynolds says it pulls Iowa closer to the office budgets […]
An Iowan who donated millions to Iowa’s three public universities and was considered one of the country’s most successful venture capitalists has died at the age of 94. John Pappajohn was born in Greece and […]
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