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Iowans who bought electric vehicles last week may have qualified for a $7,500 federal tax credit, but that credit evaporated when 2024 arrived. The Inflation Reduction Act aims to shift battery production from China and […]

An emergency manager in northwest Iowa is urging state lawmakers to provide incentives for first responders. Woodbury County Emergency Services Director Scott Mitchell says many small towns and cities across the state struggle with finding […]

Iowa’s top election official is proposing uniform rules for election recounts and is asking legislators to beef up his training budget for election workers. Secretary of State Paul Pate said Iowa is one of the […]

The final tallies are in, and state climatologist Justin Glisan says 2023 is going down as one of Iowa’s warmest and driest years in more than 150 years of record keeping. Glisan says when you […]

Former Iowa Congressman Steve King has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. King and Ramaswamy are outspoken critics of giving Summit Carbon Solutions eminent domain authority to force unwilling landowners to let the carbon pipeline […]

Iowans who’ve resolved to lose weight in the new year might need a little help in reaching their goals. Rebecca Cripe, a registered dietician and nutritionist with Gundersen Health System, says it’s not an easy […]

House Democratic Leader Jennifer Konfrst says the 2024 Iowa legislature should focus on improving access to child care and affordable housing rather than another round of tax cuts. “What does an Iowa family of four […]

Iowa is facing a shortage of attorneys, and prosecutors in one northwest Iowa county are working harder to keep up. Woodbury County Attorney James Loomis says his office needs five more attorneys to be at […]

A man was found dead following a fire at a rural Dallas County home Monday. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department reports getting a call about the fire in rural Dallas Center at 9:42 p.m. Sunday. […]

Wide areas of central and southern Iowa have had very little snowfall in recent months, not that many of us are complaining. The Des Moines International Airport reported just two-tenths of an inch of snow […]

Republican leaders in the Iowa House and Senate say it’s likely lawmakers will move up the date the Iowa personal income tax drops to just one flat rate, but there’s no agreement on the governor’s […]

An eastern Iowa program works to connect immigrant farmers with plots of land to farm. Emmaly Renshaw is executive director of Feed Iowa First, which was launched in Linn County. The three-year community farming program […]

One popular New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight. Nutritionist Heather Rasmussen says if you are positively committed to eating right and getting off the couch, you can absolutely get on course to better health. […]

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is to quit smoking, and a survey finds 70-percent of Iowa smokers -want- to quit, while 50-percent will -try- to quit in 2024. There are mixed messages […]

There are only a dozen nationally-chartered banks operating in Iowa. The 230 state-chartered banks fall under the regulation of the State Banking Division “Iowa has the fourth largest number of bank charters in the country. […]

A University of Iowa engineering professor says extreme drought poses concerns about water quality as well as the water supply. David Cwiertny is a professor of civil and environmental engineering. “Lots of communities are looking […]

Republican candidate Ron DeSantis is asking his supporters to ignore what he calls a “media narrative” that suggests Donald Trump will easily win the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination. “You have a lot of media […]

A federal judge has stopped state officials from enforcing parts of a law that banned instruction about sexual orientation in elemetary classes and has already prompted schools to remove books from library shelves. Judge Stephen […]

If you made a New Year’s resolution last night, you may need to genuinely focus on making the change in order to keep the pledge. Alison Phillips, a psychology professor at Iowa State University, says […]

The historic Hahn Bakery in Middle Amana closed its doors for good Sunday after more than 150 years of baking breads and coffee cakes. Doris Hahn and her husband Jack took over the bakery from […]