State News

The Iowa Department of Transportation has reopened Highway 2 in southwest Iowa for limited traffic. DOT transportation planner, Scott Suhr told Radio Iowa they used a new system where they set up barrier rails on […]

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled a Carroll County farmer will have to remove or modify a grain elevator built near the Arthur  Neu Municipal Airport. Loren Danner built what’s called grain leg back in […]

A LeGrand couple was killed in an accident in Marshall County on Thursday afternoon that tied up traffic on U.S. Highway 30 for several hours. Seventy-nine-year-old Delbert Eakins was trying to turn onto U.S. 30 […]

Boone police arrested two people Thursday night following a shooting near a park earlier in the day. One person was injured as a result. Schools near the park were on lockdown due to the incident. […]

The U.S. House is scheduled to pass a disaster aid bill this morning. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has designated Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Dubuque as the presiding officer of the House, to oversee debate […]

The University of Iowa softball team bowed out of the Big Ten Tournament, falling to Wisconsin, 7-4, in the opening game of the tournament on Thursday. Iowa out-hit Wisconsin 10-9, including two hits by freshmen […]

Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has approved dozens of bills that cleared the 2019 Iowa legislature. This week, Reynolds approved changes that will give governors more power in the nominating process for Iowa Supreme Court justices […]

An eastern Iowa farmer was in Washington this week to tell congress farmers need action from the federal government. Dave Walton of Wilton testified at a hearing in a U.S. House committee. “We’re suffering right […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has given the green light to a new “blackout” license plate design. “Evidently it’s popular,” Reynolds said during an interview with Radio Iowa. “I have not even seen one on a car.” […]

The State Board of Education gave preliminary approval today to a change in state rules that would require seatbelts to be installed in all new school buses. Department of Education Transportation Director, Max Christensen, told […]

There was an officer-involved shooting early this  morning in Iowa City. Authorities say two Iowa City Police officers investigating a burglary alarm at a business shortly before 2:30 a.m. fired their guns. Neither officer was […]

A Fort Dodge woman faces a minimum of five years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to dealing drugs. Thirty-year-old Chelsea Collins admitted in court that she distributed meth in the Fort Dodge area […]

Friends and family in Brooklyn remembered University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts Wednesday on what would have been her 21st birthday. Tibbetts was murdered in July while out on a run. Mollie’s cousin, Morgan Collum, […]

Teams from two Iowa high schools will be competing in the Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals next week in northern Virginia. Student Kara Wagner, from Webster City High School, is part of one team […]

Des Moines police issued a community safety the alert this morning after a mountain lion was spotted well within the capitol city limits, in a residential area near Interstate 235 and 31st Street. There’s a […]

Clinton firefighter Adam Cain returned to “light duty” Wednesday and continues his recovery after being seriously injured in January explosion while fighting a fire at the ADM plant. Firefighter Eric Hosette was killed in the […]

Despite international trade tariffs and a series of other challenges, Iowa livestock producers are seeing hog prices rise in recent weeks, which comes as a welcome surprise to many. Lee Schultz, an ag economist with […]

A $5.9 million dollar bond issue to build a new jail passed easily in Delaware County Tuesday. Eighty-five percent of voters approved the bond issue which needed a 60 percent supermajority was needed to pass. […]

Officials in Fort Madison have taken more steps to become a stop for tourists taking cruises on the Mississippi River. “Build it and they will come.” That was the decision of the Fort Madison City […]

During her 99-county tour of the state, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst says she’s frequently hearing from Iowans during town hall meetings about relentless robocalls trying to dupe us out of our money. Ernst says new […]