State News

If you have a hankering to explore the eastern Iowa facility which honors the only American president who was born in Iowa, you need to move quickly. Work will begin next week on a $20-million […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says she will support Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the U.S. Defense Department. Ernst issued a written statement of support after Hegseth appeared yesterday at a hearing before the Senate Armed […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is raising concerns about Iowa’s cancer rate and about cell phone use in schools and vehicles — and proposing legislation. Governor Reynolds delivered the annual “Condition of the State” address Tuesday night […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst questioned President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense today in a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak says the Department of Defense is […]

As the powerful Santa Ana winds returned to the Los Angeles area today, a team of Red Cross volunteers from Iowa is in southern California, helping some of the thousands of residents impacted by the […]

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is submitting a package of election-related bills to the legislature. “We did a great job in 2024. It was a very smooth election and very successful,” Pate says, “but […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley will chair two days of hearings starting tomorrow as President-elect Trump’s nominee for attorney general Pam Bondi appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I don’t decide on a nominee until after […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has offered very few clues about the policy agenda she’ll outline tonight in the annual “Condition of the State” speech at the statehouse. In the past, Reynolds has used the speech to […]

A former NFL cheerleader who’s spent the past 25 years as an explorer for National Geographic will open the Des Moines Civic Center‘s “Explorer Series” next week. Mireya Mayor travels to some of the world’s […]

Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver has delivered his first speech in the Iowa Capitol after announcing last May that he was undergoing radiation treatment for a brain tumor. “The news recently has been encouraging. The […]