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Interstate 35 in northern Iowa, near the Northwood exit, was closed for a couple of hours Tuesday afternoon as authorities negotiated with a motorist who’d been waving a gun at other vehicles. Officer Dana Knutson […]

During a speech in Ottumwa this morning, former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a significant policy priority. “I promise you, if I’m elected president, you’re going to see the single-most important thing that changes in […]

The verbal jousting between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden happened on Iowa’s political stage today — although the two were never closer than 200 miles of one another. Biden went first, during […]

The upcoming three months will be a prime time to look for — and find — a new job in Iowa, according to the latest employment outlook survey from Manpower Group. Kathy Joblinske, Manpower’s executive […]

A Dallas, Texas based company specializing in railcar renovation and manufacturing plans to build a new plant near the Butler County town of Clarksville in northeast Iowa. Clarksville Mayor Val Swinton says TrinityRail will build […]

President Trump is scheduled to speak at a Council Bluffs ethanol plant later this  afternoon. Trump intends to highlight his administration’s move to allow year-round sale of E-15 — gas blended with 15 percent ethanol. […]

President Donald Trump will be in western and central Iowa and former Vice President Joe Biden is campaigning in south central and eastern Iowa today. Trump will visit a Council Bluffs ethanol plant and highlight […]

The U.S.D.A. says more than 90% of the Iowa corn crop is now in the ground as farmers had nearly one full week of good planting conditions. The percentage planted went from 80 to 93 […]

West Liberty Police Chief Kary Kinmonth says first responders are not getting enough training on how to interact with individuals who have autism and his department is taking an initiative by hosting a statewide seminar […]

Iowa’s new poet laureate is an English professor at Iowa State University who says life’s journey has led her down some unusual detours. Sixty-three-year-old Debra Marquart) grew up in the small town of Napoleon, North […]