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A new type of radiation therapy is now being used to treat cancer patients at University Hospitals in Iowa City, one of only three sites in the nation to have the technology. It’s called the […]

The former director of the Congressional Budget Office says changes in federal immigration policy should aim to ease the U.S. labor shortage. During remarks in Iowa yesterday, Douglas Holtz-Eakin said without new immigrants, the U.S. […]

This is one of Iowa’s wettest springs on record and many of the state’s rural roads are becoming impassible even if they weren’t touched by floodwaters. Hamilton County Engineer Nikki Stinn says continued rainshowers have […]

The start of the boys state soccer tournament has been moved back one day to Friday. Officials with the Iowa High School Athletic Association made the decision after several days of heavy rain in Central […]

Two Democrats are urging Iowans to pressure Republican legislators to return to the Iowa Capitol and override the governor’s veto of a bill that would have expanded Iowa’s medical marijuana law. Representative John Forbes, a […]

The Board of Regents will consider a proposal to sell the old American Institute of Business Campus in Des Moines during their meeting next week in Ames. AIB gave the property to the University of […]

Flooding has forced the closing of Interstate 29 in spots in southwest Iowa. DOT transportation planner, Scott Suhr  says,”We currently have I-29 closed at the 55 mile marker. We are in the process of monitoring […]

Iowa Congressman Dave Loebsack is looking into a business that’s buying mobile home parks in the state. Havenpark Capital announced rent increases of up 70 percent for some tenants. “It’s going to be interesting to […]

Iowa Congressman Steve King wants the U.S. to maintain the Electoral College system that elects presidents. Legislatures in more than a dozen states have passed laws to award their electoral college votes to the candidate […]

A proposed cross-country network of recreational trails called the Great American Rail Trail would follow a 465-mile path through Iowa. Existing trails cover about half that distance, according to the Rail Trail Conservancy which created […]