State News

Officials are offering advice to Armstrong, the small northwest Iowa town where five officials were accused of bilking Armstrong out of thousands of dollars and destroying financial records. State Auditor Rob Sand has issued a […]

An Iowa inmate who has spent almost 50 years behind bars for a quadruple murder is hoping for another look at his case for what is claimed to be a new legal development. Jerry Mark […]

A new report shows a state pilot program raised the number of children who could enroll in childcare services in select communities, which improved wages and benefits for local childcare workers. The “Iowa Childcare Solutions […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says the second administration of President Donald Trump will be different from the first. “What I see in the second Trump administration is the experience that was taken from the first […]

Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is retiring from his latest post as president of the World Food Prize. Branstad, the nation’s longest serving governor, resigned in 2017 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to China. He […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says the allegations swirling around President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general seem like a replay of what happened in 2018 to one of Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominees. Grassley, a Republican, […]

A Drake University study on homeless families in central Iowa finds a major need for more emergency family shelters. Researchers followed ten families living in shelters across the Des Moines metro last year as they […]

A New York Times best-selling author and humorist is making stops in two Iowa libraries this week. Michael Perry grew up on a dairy farm in northern Wisconsin and says he never set out to […]

The Iowa Natural Resources Commission approved construction projects in Franklin, Cerro Gordo, and Poweshiek County at their recent meeting. Travis Baker of the DNR says one of the projects is replacing the lagoon wastewater treatment […]

There’s a change this year in how you register you snowmobile before running the trails in Iowa. The Iowa DNR ‘s Jessica Flatt says it simplifies the process. “Residents of Iowa are no longer required […]