State News

The Corning and Villisca School Districts have started a three-year process of studying reorganization, which will eventually lead to a public vote of merging the two schools into one district. Southwest Valley Superintendent Chris Fenster […]

A state senator from central Iowa has decided to pass on a run for the Third District Congressional seat. Zach Nunn, a Republican from Bondurant, had been conducting a listening tour across the 16 counties […]

A Sibley man is dead following a tractor rollover early this morning. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 1400 mile of Polk Avenue, northeast of Sibley, around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday morning after […]

A northwest Iowa man is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm after a bullet hit a woman in the next room at a Super 8 motel in Willmar, Minnesota. Officers learned that 34-year-old Joey […]

Investigators have identified the three bodies found in a Bancroft house last week and ruled the deaths a double murder-suicide. The investigation found that 22-year-old Mason Alrik Cederwall and 30-year-old Amy Lynn Manna — who […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is doing his best to straddle a very thin line as to whether President Trump’s tweet on Sunday about four Democratic women in Congress was racist. Grassley was asked about the […]

A team of 70 cyclists, all with some sort of physical disability, will pedal across Iowa on the week-long bicycle ride known as RAGBRAI starting this coming weekend. Hannah Lundeen is the coordinator of Adaptive […]

A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say runoff into the upper Missouri River basin for 2019 is nearly double its average. The latest data from the Corps says 38.3 million acre feet […]

A group of employees and activists gathered at a McDonald’s restaurant in Des Moines  today for a “Fight for 15” rally — as they seek to get their minimum wage raised to $15 an hour. […]

After seven years of litigation and a six-week trial, a jury has decided former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad discriminated against a gay state official. The jury awarded former Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Christopher Godfrey $1.5 million […]