State News

Business owners in downtown Davenport are calling on city administrators to take more action to support their flood recovery. A newly-organized group called the Downtown Davenport Business Coalition wants assurances the city will protect them […]

Iowans who have lost loved ones to pancreatic cancer are preparing for a trip to Washington D.C. next week and they’re taking along a sort of a secret weapon in the quest for more federal […]

A full two-thirds of Iowa’s 99 counties now confirm infestations of the emerald ash borer, which is blamed for killing millions of ash trees nationwide. Most of the counties with infestations are in eastern and […]

The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board today disussed the fatal 2017 Riverside School District bus fire. NTSB chair Robert Sumwalt says driver impairment was an issue as 74-year-old bus driver Donald Hendricks used […]

Democratic Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Dubuque is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing pay for rural doctors. “Iowa doctors have been shortchanged by a government formula that underestimates the cost of labor and practice expenses,” […]

A spokesman for Governor Reynolds says she’s putting together “a new team” to run the Iowa Department of Human Services. About 24 hours after announcing Jerry Foxhoven’s departure as the agency’s director, the governor’s office […]

Senator Joni Ernst says she doesn’t want a war with Iran — but Ernst says Iranian leaders are on a path of “increasing desperation” that eventually would require a military response. “Iran needs to understand […]

The latest U.S.D.A. crop report says for the second week in a row there were more than five days suitable for fieldwork. Farmers took advantage and the corn planting is nearly done at 98 percent. […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is chairing a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee this morning to discuss the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is scheduled to testify. Grassley, a Republican, is anxious […]

Democrats in the legislature and a prominent Republican are raising concerns about Governor Reynolds’ decision to replace the director of the state’s largest agency. Jerry Foxhoven had been director of the Iowa Department of Human […]