State News

The Iowa State basketball program has signed Kansas prep Caleb Grill, head coach Steve Prohm announced today. Grill, a 6-3 guard out of Maize, Kansas, joins the Cyclones following a standout high school career at […]

A Clear Lake couple were named the first runners-up in this year’s National Small Business Person of the Year contest. Brad and Angie Barber of Cabin Coffee Company were honored on Monday by the U. […]

A traffic stop Sunday night in Woodbury County led to the seizure of over five and a half pounds of cocaine. Woodbury County Sheriff’s Sergeant Nate Sands stopped an eastbound vehicle on Highway 20 at […]

Trade talks with the European Union and China top the agenda this week in Washington D.C. and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley will meet this afternoon with the new EU ambassador to the U.S. Grassley, who […]

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 […]