State News

For the second-consecutive season, Drake University junior Becca Hittner (Urbandale, Iowa) is the Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Year while senior Sammie Bachrodt (Wichita, Kan.) is the MVC Defensive Player […]

No. 5 Iowa State (21-11, 9-9 Big 12) blew past No. 4 Baylor (19-13, 10-8) 83-66 in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals in front of a Cardinal and Gold dominated crowd. It was a team […]

Iowa State women’s basketball senior guard Bridget Carleton was named a second-team All-American by espnW, on Thursday. Carleton becomes the first Cyclone to earn All-America honors since 2002, when Angie Welle was recognized by multiple […]

University of Iowa women’s basketballs senior Megan Gustafson has been named a first-team All-American by ESPNW. The announcement was made Thursday. Gustafson, a unanimous first team pick, earns her second career All-America distinction from ESPNW. […]

Surrounded by cameras, reporters and curious Iowans, former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke launched his campaign for the White House in some crowded southeast Iowa venues today. Joe Fierce of Keokuk wasn’t sure how to pronounce […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law that creates a new crime of lying to gain access to farms and livestock facilities with the intent to do financial or physical harm. “Untrained, unapproved […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has activated Iowa’s State Emergency Operations Center and issued state disaster declarations for 21 counties due to the massive flooding. All of the residents of the Woodbury County town of Hornick were […]

A woman whose car had been swept off a gravel road by flood waters was rescued by Sheldon firefighters last night. Sheldon Assistant Fire Chief Brad Hindt says firefighters arrived on the scene about 9:30 […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, has unveiled a plan for new parents to use some of their Social Security savings to pay for time off work to be with the new […]

From local streets to long stretches of highway, and even sections of Interstates 29 and 680, roadways across Iowa being barricaded due to flooding from heavy rainfall, ice jams and snowmelt. Communities along the Mississippi […]