Year: 2024

An Iowa-based convenience store chain is announcing the closing of a major business deal, its biggest ever. Casey’s General Stores says its buyout of the Fikes Wholesale chain is complete. Fikes was the owner of […]

Election Day is supposed to be about exercising the right to vote, but fears of violence are prompting many communities coast-to-coast to take significant security precautions, including fortifying parts of the nation’s capital. U.S. Senator […]

The University of Iowa’s Scanlan Center for School Mental Health is expanding its services to offer psychiatric care to students ages ten and up anywhere in Iowa. UI professor and psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Elliott will […]

The State Appeals Board has approved a $3.5 million settlement with the mother of a resident at the state-run Glenwood Resource Center who died after inadequate care at the facility. Thirty-year-old Joshua Ramspott had cerebral […]

Iowa junior running back Kaleb Johnson has been named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week following his dominant performance in the Hawkeyes’ 42-10 triumph over Wisconsin on Saturday night, it was announced Monday by […]

Iowa State University is “restructuring” a campus LGBTQ center to comply with a state law that will go into effect next summer that prohibits state universities from funding Diversity Equity and Inclusion offices and programs. […]

Iowans may need another cup of coffee before heading home this evening, after Daylight Saving Time ended over the weekend. While we set the clocks back an hour, our bodies need a week or so […]

The races in Iowa’s first and third congressional districts are considered among the few competitive U.S. House races in the country and campaign spending in the two districts has skyrocketed to at least $50 million. […]

A website dedicated to the disappearance of former KIMT-TV news anchor Jodi Huisentruit reports Mason City authorities were recently in Minnesota to follow up on a tip related to the case. According to FindJodi.com, Mason […]

Many Iowans are bitterly divided over what results they’d like to see from tomorrow’s presidential election, and it’s causing stress between some co-workers, friends and family members. Instead of bickering about politics, psychologist Shilagh Mirgain […]

Iowa’s two major political parties are emphasizing different metrics as Election Day draws near — the new “Iowa Poll” showing Democrat Kamala Harris with a narrow lead and early voting stats showing Iowa Republicans with […]

A federal judge has rejected a bid to block Secretary of State Paul Pate’s order that election workers check the citizenship status of over two-thousand people who’ve registered to vote in Iowa. The judge said […]

State climatologist Justin Glisan says the rain across the state this week helped bump the month of October down the dry weather record book. “Up through the 29th we were about in the top five […]

Nearly 80,000 Iowans have become active registered voters in the past month based on data posted on the Iowa Secretary of State’s website this afternoon. As of today, Republicans have a 173,000 voter registration edge […]

The Winneshiek County Auditor is raising concerns about Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s order to challenge the ballots of over two-thousand Iowans flagged as potential non-citizens. Winneshiek County Auditor Benjamin Steines, in a written […]

Black Friday is four weeks from today, launching another holiday shopping season, but a University of Iowa study finds people who are lonely may find themselves unable to resist the impulse to buy. Marketing Professor […]

Emmet County — the 99th and final county in Iowa to have a confirmed case of Emerald Ash Borer — will be the site of a mid-November meeting about what’s next for ash trees in […]

The trapping season opens in Iowa Saturday with a DNR expert saying the prospects look good. Furbearer biologist Vince Evelsizer says some of the animals have managed the recent wet to dry weather swings better […]