State News

Investigators with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources say they traced manure runoff that led to a fish kill in Dubuque County to the Lawler Dairy in Peosta. DNR environmental specialist, Brett Meyers, says they […]

The author whose book “The Art of Racing in the Rain” spent three years on the New York Times best-seller list is one of the featured speakers at this weekend’s Des Moines Book Festival. Audio:  […]

Organizers of a rally a few hours before Saturday’s presidential candidate forum in Storm Lake say shrinking market options for farmers must be addressed. Many of the Democratic candidates who’ve been traveling through Iowa this […]

Producers from other parts of Iowa are coming to the aid of those in flood-stricken areas. Three semis from a group of Story County cattlemen delivered approximately 30 round bales of alfalfa and 72 square […]

The president of Special Olympics Iowa says he’s trying to remain optimistic after U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week proposed $18 million in cuts to the national program. John Kliegl says the funding in […]

The Iowa House has embraced a plan that would automatically give felons who’ve completed their sentences the right to vote in Iowa. The idea, in the form of a proposed constitutional amendment, has been one […]

Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly has agreed to a three-year contract extension that runs through the 2025 season. Fennelly will reach a milestone season next fall when he begins his 25th season on […]

About a dozen alleged members of a street gang linked to a series of crimes were arrested in central Iowa on Wednesday. After a three-year investigation, federal agents raided several homes and businesses in the […]

A group of state and federal officials will be in southwest Iowa this afternoon and Friday to meet with farmers and discuss flood recovery. State Representative David Sieck, a farmer from Glenwood, has lived along […]

Closed interstate highways and submerged train tracks are creating challenges for moving grain and livestock. But Mike Steenhoek of the Soy Transportation Coalition says washed-out county bridges and impassable gravel roads are equally important because […]