State News

A bill that would increase penalties against those found guilty of mistreating companion animals in Iowa has unanimously cleared the House and is now under review in the Iowa Senate. Tom Colvin, CEO of the […]

The Iowa State Patrol says a central Iowa man was killed in two-vehicle crash on Highway 20 in rural Calhoun County on Monday afternoon. Reportedly, an eastbound 2019 Dodge van driven by 24-year-old Forrest Fromm […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is criticizing Democrats in the Senate who last night blocked consideration of a disaster relief package that included money for flood recovery in Iowa and across the Midwest. Grassley, a Republican, […]

The Iowa House and Senate have approved changes in the threshold for passing the exam college graduates must take before they may be hired as a teacher. The bill gives state education officials authority to […]

A Mitchell County man is being sent to jail after failing to clean up thousands of tires from an illegal dump site. Sixty-three-year-old Gary Eggers of Stacyville was accused of illegally storing and dumping waste […]

More than 425,000 Iowa Medicaid patients will have to sign up with a new “managed care organization” now that the state and United Healthcare are ending their business deal. However, it’s unclear if there’s a […]

Today is “equal pay day,” the symbolic day when women’s wages on average catch up to men’s earnings from the previous year. In Iowa, women generally make about 79-percent of what men do, less for […]

An Ames man will serve 30 years in prison for sexual exploitation and child pornography charges. Twenty-eight-year-old Tyler Harris pleaded guilty in November to six counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of […]

As floodwaters in southwest Iowa slowly recede, forecasters fear large storms could develop soon that would make a bad situation worse. Kevin Low, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Missouri Basin Forecast Center, says […]

A Senate-passed bill that’s now part of the abortion debate is now in limbo in the House. The bill would establish a life prison sentence for someone convicted of intentionally or accidentally causing the termination […]