Month: July 2023

The Iowa Lottery set a record for sales in the fiscal year that ended June 30th, with sales of $481.5 million. Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn started the fiscal year with concerns as the stalwart […]

Sunday is “World Day Against Trafficking in Persons” and Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is challenging Iowans to use the opportunity to learn something and do something about human trafficking. “It’s right here in […]

Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion is proposing an expansion of the federal child tax credit, so parents would be able to retroactively claim it in the previous year, after a child is born. “Providing […]

An excessive heat warning is posted for 22 southeast Iowa counties today as heat indices climb well into the triple digits. The rest of the state’s under a heat advisory as air temperatures are forecast […]

The owners of the Iowa Yak Ranch are giving tours of their farm near Exira and will have two yaks in the Iowa State Fair’s Avenue of Breeds as they make the case that raising […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he opposes a bill that’s advanced in the U.S. Senate which would create a code of ethics for U.S. Supreme Court justices. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary […]

Two people were killed, two hurt, in a crash Wednesday afternoon in on Interstate 29 western Iowa’s Harrison County. The crash occurred in a construction zone south of Mondamin, at around 4 p.m. The Iowa […]

Forecasters say many Iowa cities will see high temperatures hit 100 degrees today and that heat will be tough on people — and pets. K.C. Routos, director of development at the Animal Rescue League of […]

The Iowa DNR is reopening the renovated Pikes Peak State Park campground near McGregor today. Northeast Parks supervisor Detra Dettmann says the campground got a complete overhaul. “There’s new roadways in the campground, we’ve eliminated […]