A months-long competition culminates this weekend as teams of high school students from across Iowa have designed, built and programmed roving robots to face off against each other. Rebecca Whitaker, coordinator of the FIRST Tech […]
The Iowa Supreme Court has thrown out a drug possession case in Sioux City involving a drug dog. Yale Stevens of Sioux City was convicted of possessing meth following his arrest when his brother was […]
An Iowa State University researcher is studying how singing can help those who have Parkinson’s disease. Elizabeth Stegemoller says Parkinson’s disease affects an area of the brain that controls movement and she’s trying to find […]
Governor Kim Reynolds says she and her fellow Republicans in the House and Senate are about two-thirds of the way toward reaching a final agreement on a tax plan. The governor is raising concerns, though, […]
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 […]
House Speaker Pat Grassley has used his authority to shift the governor’s plan for state-funded private school scholarships to another House committee, so the bill remains eligible for debate. “I can’t predict the end result […]
A new report shows the State of Iowa issued nearly $44 million worth of tax refunds last year to corporations claiming a tax credit for research activities. Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver says that’s part […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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