State News

Iowa’s former secretary of agriculture is back in the state to survey flood damage and talk to displaced residents, especially farmers who have had many hundreds of acres underwater. Bill Northey, now an undersecretary at […]

Floodwaters are gradually falling but residents in four southwest Iowa communities who were required to evacuate due to flooding haven’t seen their homes in about two weeks. Matt Schoville and his family had to flee […]

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 […]