State News

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is blasting the Biden Administration for putting a hold on the shipment of 3500 bombs to Israel. “This is absolutely unacceptable,” Ernst said. “Withholding any support from Israel is literally appeasing […]

The operators of the historic Webster City movie theater damaged by a fire last November 29th are hoping to get it back open this fall. The Webster Theater and two other buildings in the downtown […]

A name change means the 10,000 Iowa kids who are in Boy Scouts of America today will be in “Scouting America” troops starting February 8 of next year. “We started allowing young ladies to join […]

Governor Reynolds has signed a bill into law that raises the maximum tax deduction for contributing to a “College Savings Iowa” account to $5200. That’s 22% higher than what was allowed this year. The higher […]

Environmental groups and experts say a new study shows serious health issues surrounding two coal-fired plants operated by MidAmerican Energy in northwest Iowa just south of Sioux City. Josh Mandelbaum is with the Environmental Law […]

There have already been nearly 20 motorcyclists killed in accidents this year and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau and the Iowa DOT are trying to raise awareness of the problem. GTSB spokesperson Colleen Powell, says […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says prospects for congressional approval of a new Farm Bill are fading. “So what we call the five-year Farm Bill of 2018 last year became a six-year Farm Bill,” Grassley says, […]

Nearly $27 million in state funding that could have been used for prevention and treatment of opioid use won’t be spent. States are getting money from legal settlements with pharmaceutical companies and distributors accused of […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says a focus on what’s called “the science of reading” will improve the reading skills of Iowa students. The governor went to Adel this afternoon and sat among a group of first […]

The U.S. Labor Department says a Tennesse-based cleaning company will pay $649,000 in penalties for employing children at facilities that included the Sioux City Seaboard-Triumph pork plant. An investigation earlier this year found that children, […]