State News

The Iowa State Patrol says a central Iowa man was killed in two-vehicle crash on Highway 20 in rural Calhoun County on Monday afternoon. Reportedly, an eastbound 2019 Dodge van driven by 24-year-old Forrest Fromm […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is criticizing Democrats in the Senate who last night blocked consideration of a disaster relief package that included money for flood recovery in Iowa and across the Midwest. Grassley, a Republican, […]

The Iowa House and Senate have approved changes in the threshold for passing the exam college graduates must take before they may be hired as a teacher. The bill gives state education officials authority to […]

A Mitchell County man is being sent to jail after failing to clean up thousands of tires from an illegal dump site. Sixty-three-year-old Gary Eggers of Stacyville was accused of illegally storing and dumping waste […]

More than 425,000 Iowa Medicaid patients will have to sign up with a new “managed care organization” now that the state and United Healthcare are ending their business deal. However, it’s unclear if there’s a […]

Today is “equal pay day,” the symbolic day when women’s wages on average catch up to men’s earnings from the previous year. In Iowa, women generally make about 79-percent of what men do, less for […]

An Ames man will serve 30 years in prison for sexual exploitation and child pornography charges. Twenty-eight-year-old Tyler Harris pleaded guilty in November to six counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of […]

As floodwaters in southwest Iowa slowly recede, forecasters fear large storms could develop soon that would make a bad situation worse. Kevin Low, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Missouri Basin Forecast Center, says […]

A Senate-passed bill that’s now part of the abortion debate is now in limbo in the House. The bill would establish a life prison sentence for someone convicted of intentionally or accidentally causing the termination […]

Rain in March added to the snowmelt and caused flooding in the state — but state climatologist Justin Glisan says there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary in the overall weather picture. “Typically we expect […]