State News

A 21-year-old man from Sigourney has been charged with murdering his girlfriend’s four-month-old boy. The child died at a Des Moines hospital this morning. Court records indicate Johnny Lynn Dale, Jr. was caring for four-month-old […]

A state board has approved state tax breaks on construction materials for companies expanding facilities in Fairfield and Perry. Traffix Devices in Fairfield makes things like rubber cones, barricades and construction signs and ships its […]

Work to restore Sioux City’s historic Warrior Hotel is now about one year away from completion. Restoration Iowa vice president Alex Cherubin is overseeing the $73 million project. “We got the interior framing, exterior framing […]

Police say a man who had a gun at the scene of a shooting in Creston earlier this week is being held in the Union County Jail. Officers responded to a report of a shooting […]

Iowa’s unemployment rate in May was 2.4%, unchanged for the past 11 months. Nearly 41,000 Iowans were unemployed last month. That’s about 400 more than were getting unemployment benefits in April. However, the state’s unemployment […]

The president of the union that represents many of the workers at the state-run Mental Health Institute in Independence says four staffers at the facility have been injured this month in assaults by patients. AFSCME […]

Spring was no lamb, and summer is coming into Iowa this morning like an angry, wet lion. Wide sections of the state are being peppered with powerful thunderstorms, strong winds and hail, while a Flash […]

The summer season officially arrives later this morning and with it, an elevated risk of serious or deadly accidents as Iowans seek to cool off in the water. Mindy Uhle, an executive officer with the […]

Iowa State’s Talen Horton-Tucker and Marial Shayok were both taken in Thursday night’s NBA Draft. Horton-Tucker was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second with the number 46 pick. The Chicago native showed […]

Eight people accused of distributing more than six pounds of ice meth in eastern Iowa will spend a total of 97 years in prison. The eight admitted to distributing the drug in Dubuque after it […]