State News

An eastern Iowa state trooper is glad he’s kept a little used piece of equipment ready to go after it was needed to save the life of a rider on RAGBRAI Wednesday. Trooper Bob Conrad […]

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is taking aim at fossil fuel companies in her new climate plan. Gillibrand says the goal is to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and work toward […]

A team of state and local law enforcement officers tracked and arrested a fugitive in central Iowa who was wanted for two murders in Chicago. Authorities in the Chicago area learned 33-year-old Conny Miles, Junior, […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is championing a bipartisan bill to lower prescription drug costs for Americans over the age of 65. “This is the moment for the senate to act,” Grassley says. The Senate Finance […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst was asked during her weekly conference call if she had talked with fellow Republican Congressman Steve King after King responded on twitter when Ernst said she thought President Donald Trump’s remarks […]

About a quarter-million Iowans get their drinking water from private wells and having those wells routinely tested for contaminants is vital. Jamie Benning, water quality program manager for Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, says […]

The legislature’s top Republicans say there will be no investigation in the legislative branch of why Governor Kim Reynolds forced the head of the Department of Human Services to resign. Former DHS director Jerry Foxhoven […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says Customs and Border Patrol officers are doing their best  — but there’s a very real humanitarian crisis on the southern border. Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, visited McAllen, Texas […]

A seven-year-old girl escaped injury after she climbed up a water tower in Estherville this  morning and got stuck at the top. Estherville Police were called shortly after 10 a.m. about a missing girl with […]

The annual statewide roadside survey will start next week, giving the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and hunters, vital data about the health of populations of wild game, like pheasants. Todd Bogenschutz, a wildlife biologist […]

A bicyclist who was hit by a car in Waterloo Tuesday afternoon has died of injuries he suffered in the accident. Police confirm that 22-year-old Dilail Salkic of Waterloo died on Wednesday. The accident involving […]

Statewide elected officials have approved spending nearly $7.8 million to buy a Des Moines office building. The four-story structure will be the new home of the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The Iowa Finance Authority already […]

Iowa State University is studying ways to use soybean oil instead of petroleum-based oil as a bonding agent in asphalt for making roads. Rolland Schnell, a soybean farmer from Newton, says it’s a tremendous opportunity […]

A north-central Iowa drug kingpin convicted for the 1993 murders of three witnesses and two children is scheduled to be executed in January after the U.S. Justice Department says it will carry out executions of […]

A filmmaker from New York is in Sioux City this week, doing research for his follow up to a documentary made in the late 1970’s. Jay Shapiro’s film will look at the aftermath of Zenith’s […]

A Des Moines man is in custody after a high speed and long distance chase. Shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, a Knoxville policeman stopped a car for an equipment violation. What the officer didn’t know […]

A former two-term congressman who lost two statewide races in Pennsylvania is traveling though Iowa, telling Democrats his military experience is what’s needed in the White House. Joe Sestak made his first presidential campaign appearance […]

A team of Iowa State University researchers interviewed 20 African American families with a high risk for Type 2 diabetes and discovered frequent miscommunication about the disease between parents and their adult children. Tera Jordan, […]

A Hinton man is alive today, thanks to fast action from his golfing partners. Sixty-eight-year-old Dick Beaulieu was golfing in Hinton on July 2nd and had just hit a shot onto the green when he […]

A big bunch of small, two-seat airplanes are in eastern Iowa this week. Clinton is hosting the ‘Confab in the Corn.’ It’s the annual Cessna 150, 152 fly-in. The event is being held at the […]