State News

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 […]

An Iowa State University study finds there’s a simple yet powerful way to improve your mood in just minutes. ISU Psychology Professor Douglas Gentile says they sent about 400 students out to walk around campus […]

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill that would let adult women in Iowa skip the requirement of a prescription and be able to buy birth control at the pharmacy counter. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds […]

The trial of the man accused last summer’s murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts is being moved to Woodbury County. Twenty-four-year-old Cristhian Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in Tibbett’s death. He is […]

It’ll be a homecoming of sorts when an Iowa native musician returns to Ames to perform this weekend. John Engelkes grew up in Parkersburg and now plays bass trombone with the San Francisco Symphony. He […]

Two groups that support a moratorium on construction of new livestock confinements have filed a lawsuit against the State of Iowa — accusing state officials of failing to protect the Raccoon River from contaminants like […]

A documentary film about Iowa’s sex trafficking underworld will make its debut next week, with plans to show the movie in communities across the state over the coming months. Des Moines filmmaker Vanessa McNeal says […]

The assessment of the flood damage to Iowa roadways continues. Iowa Department of Transportation director Mark Lowe recently touring flooded areas on the western side of the state and says some of the damage is […]

The Iowa legislature has voted to let three-wheeled vehicles used to spray farm fields carry up to 25,000 pounds of chemicals or nutrients on Iowa highways. Representative Cindy Winckler, a Democrat from Davenport, said the […]