State News

The state of Iowa has won a large grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to improve water quality. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says the federal funds will be used to construct wetlands. “This […]

The University of Iowa reports it took in a record amount of external funding in the last fiscal year. Marty Scholz, is the U-I’s vice president for research. “We’re up to a little short of […]

California Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris says the government must intervene to address escalating prescription drug prices. “We literally can solve this, but government has to do its job and leaders have to […]

A $100 million theme park is planned for the Waterloo area. The owners of Lost Island Water Park announced a proposal Monday to build an amusement near their current attraction. Officials say state “Rise” funds, […]

A study from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition finds Iowa does well compared to the rest of the country when it comes to housing affordability. The coalition’s “Out of Reach Report” details how much it […]

Trees Forever hostied what it called a “Creating a Buzz” field tour in eastern Iowa this morning. Field coordinator Emily Swihart says they’re teaching the public about the needs of pollinators and how to establish […]

The Corning and Villisca School Districts have started a three-year process of studying reorganization, which will eventually lead to a public vote of merging the two schools into one district. Southwest Valley Superintendent Chris Fenster […]

A state senator from central Iowa has decided to pass on a run for the Third District Congressional seat. Zach Nunn, a Republican from Bondurant, had been conducting a listening tour across the 16 counties […]

A Sibley man is dead following a tractor rollover early this morning. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 1400 mile of Polk Avenue, northeast of Sibley, around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday morning after […]

A northwest Iowa man is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm after a bullet hit a woman in the next room at a Super 8 motel in Willmar, Minnesota. Officers learned that 34-year-old Joey […]

Investigators have identified the three bodies found in a Bancroft house last week and ruled the deaths a double murder-suicide. The investigation found that 22-year-old Mason Alrik Cederwall and 30-year-old Amy Lynn Manna — who […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is doing his best to straddle a very thin line as to whether President Trump’s tweet on Sunday about four Democratic women in Congress was racist. Grassley was asked about the […]

A team of 70 cyclists, all with some sort of physical disability, will pedal across Iowa on the week-long bicycle ride known as RAGBRAI starting this coming weekend. Hannah Lundeen is the coordinator of Adaptive […]

A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say runoff into the upper Missouri River basin for 2019 is nearly double its average. The latest data from the Corps says 38.3 million acre feet […]

A group of employees and activists gathered at a McDonald’s restaurant in Des Moines  today for a “Fight for 15” rally — as they seek to get their minimum wage raised to $15 an hour. […]

After seven years of litigation and a six-week trial, a jury has decided former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad discriminated against a gay state official. The jury awarded former Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Christopher Godfrey $1.5 million […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden says he wants to improve, not replace the Affordable Care Act, by adding a “public option” — letting people under the age of 65 buy Medicare-like coverage. “I think it’s […]

State Senator Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa is exploring a fourth run for a seat in congress. Miller-Meeks, a Republican, ran unsuccessfully against Democratic Congressman Dave Loebsack in 2008, 2010 and 2014. Loebsack is not seeking […]

After being closed twice by spring floods, the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is open again, hopefully for good. The 8,300 acre refuge in southwest Iowa was forced to put up barricades in March when the […]

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission got a look at some of the technology that will be used for sports gambling during their meeting last week. Iowa Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says the […]