State News

Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has approved dozens of bills that cleared the 2019 Iowa legislature. This week, Reynolds approved changes that will give governors more power in the nominating process for Iowa Supreme Court justices […]

An eastern Iowa farmer was in Washington this week to tell congress farmers need action from the federal government. Dave Walton of Wilton testified at a hearing in a U.S. House committee. “We’re suffering right […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has given the green light to a new “blackout” license plate design. “Evidently it’s popular,” Reynolds said during an interview with Radio Iowa. “I have not even seen one on a car.” […]

The State Board of Education gave preliminary approval today to a change in state rules that would require seatbelts to be installed in all new school buses. Department of Education Transportation Director, Max Christensen, told […]

There was an officer-involved shooting early this  morning in Iowa City. Authorities say two Iowa City Police officers investigating a burglary alarm at a business shortly before 2:30 a.m. fired their guns. Neither officer was […]

A Fort Dodge woman faces a minimum of five years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to dealing drugs. Thirty-year-old Chelsea Collins admitted in court that she distributed meth in the Fort Dodge area […]

Friends and family in Brooklyn remembered University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts Wednesday on what would have been her 21st birthday. Tibbetts was murdered in July while out on a run. Mollie’s cousin, Morgan Collum, […]

Teams from two Iowa high schools will be competing in the Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals next week in northern Virginia. Student Kara Wagner, from Webster City High School, is part of one team […]

Des Moines police issued a community safety the alert this morning after a mountain lion was spotted well within the capitol city limits, in a residential area near Interstate 235 and 31st Street. There’s a […]

Clinton firefighter Adam Cain returned to “light duty” Wednesday and continues his recovery after being seriously injured in January explosion while fighting a fire at the ADM plant. Firefighter Eric Hosette was killed in the […]