State News

Cool, wet weather in most of the state last week has delayed planting progress. According to the U.S.D.A.’s weekly Iowa crop report, 36 percent of intended corn acres had been planted by the end of […]

A bicyclist was hit and killed while riding near Iowa City Monday. The Iowa State Patrol reports that 83-year-old David Schuldt was riding on old Highway 218 on the south edge of Iowa City as […]

An author and self-described spiritual adviser who is one of the 22 declared Democratic presidential candidates stopped by a Mason City ethanol plant on Monday afternoon. Marianne Williamson said the U.S. government isn’t looking out […]

While the bald eagle is making a comeback in Iowa and across the country, an expert says there are still some challenges facing the national symbol. The executive director Saving Our Avian Resources (SOAR) Kay […]

The trial of the man accused of stabbing a former Iowa State University golfer to death on a local course in Ames has been moved to northeast Iowa. The judge agreed publicity in Story County […]

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says historic droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and flooding illustrate why climate change is the greatest challenge the country faces. “Climate change is…understood to be happening beyond a shadow of a doubt […]

Former Republican Congressman David Young is aiming for a rematch in 2020, hoping to unseat the Democrat who beat him in 2018. “It’s hard to run against someone who has a record, but now Cindy […]

The bill named after a Charles City teen who died after sustaining brain injuries in an ATV accident is now law. The law will let people signal their intentions to be an organ and tissue […]

A 19-year-old has been sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to robbing five Iowa pharmacies. Authorities say in December of 2017, Rontel Mial drove from Indiana to Iowa, entered a Walgreens pharmacy […]

A wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is encouraging landowners to plant some food plots this spring to help out pheasants and other birds. Todd Bogenschutz says the severe winter weather this […]