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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 […]

The 2019 World Food Prize winner does work that many people in Iowa can relate to. Simon Groot of the Netherlands is the founder and leader of East-West Seed and has helped small farmers in […]

An eastern Iowa conservation group is taking an unconventional approach to tracking rare turtles on its land. A Montana man has trained his hunting dogs to find the reptiles for researchers. John Rucker, and his […]

Three Iowa Democrats who beat incumbents in 2018 were featured at the party’s big fundraiser Sunday afternoon in Cedar Rapids. Third district Congresswoman Cindy Axne of West Des Moines said she and Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer […]

Thousands of bicyclists are scheduled to go through Burlington next month during the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, though it’s unclear how flooding may impact the route. Kay Breuer, with the Greater Burlington […]