State News

It wasn’t long ago that Iowa was buried under a blanket of white with wind chills howling as low as 40 degrees below zero, but most of that deep snow is long gone and what […]

A bill in the Iowa Senate would ban a type of reading instruction called “three cueing” and require that all Iowa schools use what’s called the science of reading. Heather Peske, executive director of the […]

An ad agency that promoted sales of OxyContin has agreed to pay Iowa over two-and-a-half MILLION dollars to address the opioid crisis. Publicis, which is part of a French media company, has agreed to pay […]

New studies are finding links between people who are obese and lonely who may be at risk for larger problems with their physical and mental health. Jennifer Linse, an advanced practice social worker, says cases […]

A Sioux Center dentist plans to provide free dental care for one day to kids in the community. Sioux Center Dental, owned and operated by Doctor Trevor Kuiper, will donate its facilities and staff to […]

A bill under consideration in the Iowa House would require schools to teach students the meaning of ten national holidays. Constitution Day in September, Columbus Day in October and Veterans Day in November are on […]

A 44-year-old southeast Iowa man has been charged with first degree murder and abuse of a corpse after authorities executing a search warrant found a body near the town of Ollie. The State Anthropologist is […]

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled it was not illegal for Des Moines Area Community College to pay a man a significantly higher salary than a woman who was doing the same work. DMACC hired […]

Senate Republican Leader Jack Whitver says he is personally opposed to a bill introduced in the Iowa House that would let 20% of House or Senate members force a vote on the use of eminent […]

Residents in the southwest Iowa town of Adair are coming together this weekend to help the family of a local teen with mounting medical bills after she was critically injured in a car accident. Jaya […]

Much of Iowa is seeing above-normal temperatures for the first week of February, a radical change from just a couple of weeks ago. January wrapped up with some Iowa cities reporting mid-50s for highs, and […]

A western Iowa woman faces charges in connection with a fatal vehicle-pedestrian accident in December. Council Bluffs Police say 47-year-old Angela H. Thurman, of Pacific Junction, was charged with homicide by vehicle, OWI/3rd offense, and […]

A coalition of nearly 20 area shelters and housing organizations in northern Iowa recently completed the biannual Point-in-Time homeless census. Numbers were generally up across the region, but at the Northern Lights Alliance of Shelters […]

A program called Read Across Iowa offers the state’s elementary school teachers free books, lesson plans and activities for their classrooms during March, with a focus on food and agriculture. Professor Constance Beecher, in Iowa […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is joining other Republicans in the U-S Senate who’re calling for an investigation of how the Biden Administration has handled changes in the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA. […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has introduced a bill that would require the gender listed on an Iowa driver’s license or birth certificate to match the person’s gender at birth — preventing transgender residents from changing the […]

A day after the governor’s proposed overhaul of Area Education Agencies was tabled by an Iowa House subcommittee, House Speaker Pat Grassley told reporters House Republicans intend to “reset” the conversation with parents and school […]

Democrats in the Iowa House are calling for an increase in the minimum wage, an expansion of the annual state sales tax holiday and a state subsidy for some child care workers. “We, as Iowa […]

While many Iowans are enjoying temperatures well above normal in the 40s and 50s, it was just two weeks ago that high temps were some 60 to 70-degrees colder — in the teens below zero. […]

The economies in Iowa and the Midwest improved, slightly, during January, according to Creighton University’s monthly survey of business leaders and supply managers in Iowa and eight other states. Creighton economist Ernie Goss says the […]