State News

An autopsy is planned on a Waukee man who died while inner-tubing on Clear Lake over the weekend. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says at about 2:30 Saturday afternoon, 28-year-old Daniel Linderman was tubing […]

Dozens of young people working in Iowa on presidential campaigns were planning a “Friendship 2020” dodgeball tournament Saturday. After the mass shooting in El Paso, the teams representing El Paso native Beto O’Rourke immediately withdrew […]

Twenty-two of the candidates in the Democratic presidential race plan to be at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake this Friday night for the “Wing Ding.” “It’s going to be a packed house,” Randy Black, […]

If you’ve ever longed to smack a baseball into the green cornfield on the famed northeast Iowa diamond where the movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed, this weekend is your golden chance. The Muscular Dystrophy […]

The population of the southwest Iowa town of Saint Charles is officially 653, but that’s swelling this weekend by many times over. The 5th annual Hinterland Music Festival is opening this (Friday) afternoon and runs […]

The remains of a central Iowa Army soldier are returning home after 75 years. Corporal Ralph Bennett, an Ames native, was listed as killed in action after disappearing in June of 1944 as his unit […]

A 31-year-old western Iowa man who offered to pay for sex with someone online that he thought was a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison. In September of last year, […]

Forecasters say much of Iowa will have sunny skies and moderate summertime temperatures through the weekend, but the months ahead may be much cooler and wetter. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the just-ended month of […]

The company that manufactures medical marijuana in Iowa is introducing a line of medical cannabis vapor products that will be soon be available. MedPharm Iowa’s Lucas Nelson says this will give patients a new option. […]

A 32-year-old Iowa man who’d been living in China faced three drug-related charges and will go on trial in Cedar Rapids. Levi Wallace has been charged with one count of importing a controlled substance, one […]

Today (Friday) is the grand opening for a former sewing factory in downtown Dyersville that has been converted into a brewery. Carol and Tom Olberding have named their business the Textile Brewing Company. “It started […]

Whether you’re shopping for clothes for yourself or for your kids heading back to school, you can save a nice chunk of change with this weekend’s annual Sales Tax Holiday. John Fuller, a spokesman for […]

The State Board of Education Thursday voted down proposed new rules for using restraints and seclusion rooms for students in a procedural move to allow them to make changes. There are still concerns about how […]

A Nebraska man is in custody, facing charges after an attempted traffic stop by Sioux City Police that resulted in an officer firing his weapon. Sioux City Police Chief Rex Mueller says there were felony […]

A Sioux City man has been convicted on two counts of first degree murder for the stabbing deaths of his former girlfriend and an acquaintance. Nineteen-year-old Tran Walker was accused of murdering 17-year-old Paiten Sullivan […]

The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating after a man died following an explosion at a business near Britt on Wednesday. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department says 62-year-old Gary Olson died after an explosion at […]

The state agency director who was dismissed six weeks ago says he’s taking legal action to clear his name — and to send a message to his former employees in the Department of Human Services. […]

A train derailment is under investigation in northwest Iowa. On Wednesday at 8:32 p.m., the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office received reports of a train derailment that occurred on the BNSF Railway, five miles northwest of […]

The State Board of Education gave final approval today to a change in state school bus rules that will require seatbelts to be installed whenever a district buys a new school bus. Department of Education […]

Iowa is falling short on deterring kids from using tobacco, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network. Danielle Oswald-Thole, the organization’s Iowa government relations director, blames the state’s tobacco […]