State News

As the Iowa Senate began its session this morning, one senator asked to speak to her colleagues. Senator Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa grew emotional as she explained why she supports automatically restoring voting rights to […]

The Iowa Attorney General has reached a settlement where two chiropractors who sold a weight loss program in the state will give customers  refunds. AG spokesman Lynn Hicks says Bradley Cook sold the NutriMost program […]

The Veterans Administration opened a new outpatient clinic in Davenport this week, offering more room for more veterans to receive more services while cutting down on wait times. Iowa City VA Health Care System director […]

Events are planned across Iowa this month to raise awareness about the importance of being organ, eye and tissue donors. Deb Thielen, a registered nurse at Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City, says a […]

An Iowa Senate committee has added a number of election law changes to a narrow proposal that passed the Iowa House with unanimous, bipartisan support. The House bill aims to ensure mail-in ballots are counted […]

The governors of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri are asking the Army Corps of Engineers to come up with more flood-prevention solutions. The three governors and Army Corps officials met this in Council Bluffs and plan […]

Cedar Rapids fire investigators believe smoking led to a fatal fire Tuesday at a four-unit condominium complex. Firefighters found thick smoke coming out of one unit and found 61-year-old Toni Kay Cooley dead inside. They […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley said it is “idiotic” for President Trump to suggest the sound generated by wind turbines causes cancer. During a speech Tuesday night, the president made several derogatory comments about structures he […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is headed to Council Bluffs to meet with the governors of Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas later this afternoon. Representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will […]

A key Republican lawmaker in the Iowa House says his committee will not advance a bill about the crime of fetal homicide that defines personhood as starting at conception. It means the bill is tabled […]