State News

A Republican congressman from Texas has put a halt to plans to pass a disaster relief package in the U.S. House today. The $19 billion package won approval in the Republican-led Senate Thursday on an […]

A lawyer for Planned Parenthood today asked an Iowa judge to suspend a new law that blocks Planned Parenthood from getting federal grants to provide sex education to at-risk teens. Attorney Julie Murray said Planned […]

Federal officials have approved the design for a new federal courthouse on a river bank in downtown Des Moines. Some city leaders have been fighting the plan, saying the courthouse will look like a prison […]

A south-central Iowa man is charged with attempted murder after running into the Decatur County Sheriff’s SUV with a tractor. DCI Special Agent In Charge, Adam DeCamp says Decatur County Sheriff Ben Boswell and two […]

There appears to be little relief from the rain in the forecast. Crews in Davenport are erecting wider and taller barriers in the same place where a temporary flood wall was breached earlier this month. […]

The Iowa Supreme Court is giving an African-American man more time to show the racial makeup of his jury pool was not fair. Kenneth Lilly appealed his conviction of first-degree robbery for helping another man […]

AAA predicts a three-and-a-half percent increase in travel volume this Memorial Day weekend, sparked — perhaps — by lower gas prices. AAA’s fuel price survey indicates the average price today for regular unleaded gasoline is […]

National Weather Service forecasters say strong storms with heavy rain, hail and even a tornado are possible today in parts of Iowa. Parts of southwest Iowa’s Cass and Adams Counties got four inches of rain […]

More than 1,500 Iowans have signed a petition urging Governor Kim Reynold to sign a bill that expands the state’s medical marijuana program. Paul Nye of Ankeny was in the group that delivered the petitions […]

AAA is predicting a record for travel this Memorial Day weekend. Iowa State Patrol trooper John Farley says that means you’ll see a lot of traffic on the state’s roadways. He says they Patrol wants […]