State News

This weekend, the 2019 Iowa Legislative session ended with some bitter rhetorical battles over the conservative agenda enacted by Republicans who hold a majority of seats in the House and Senate. Representative Andy McKean of […]

The start of Pella’s annual tulip festival is still more than a week away and thanks to warm spring weather, about two-thirds of the southeast Iowa community’s famous flowers are already in bloom. Jeanette Vaughan, […]

Iowa basketball star Megan Gustafson was in the House and the Senate today as Iowa legislators passed resolutions recognizing her achievements. Senator Joe Bolkcom of Iowa City read some of the stats from Gustofson’s senior […]

The folks from Habitat for Humanity have been taking advantage of this week’s weather to hold a “Blitz Build” on homes in Marshalltown affected by last July’s tornado. Habitat helped work on 60 homes this […]

A Nebraska man is jailed in central Iowa on charges he tried to kill a police officer during a chase on Tuesday afternoon. Dayton Police Officer Nick Dunbar was notified by the Webster County Sheriff’s […]

Republican lawmakers are setting new financing requirements for construction on the public university campuses in Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City. Under the plan, the state will provide just 60 percent of the cost for […]

Bills that have emerged in the Iowa House and Senate would increase scholarships for students at private and parochial schools. Iowans already can get a tax credit for donating to a private school’s scholarship fund […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says she’s willing to consider a bill that would raise the age for buying tobacco and other nicotine products to 21. “We need to continue to do everything we can to fight […]

An Omaha woman is hospitalized after wrecking her vehicle while driving on a closed portion of a flood-damaged road in southwest Iowa. The Mills County Sheriff’s Office says 26-year-old Tabitha Lassek was driving a 2011 […]

Le Mars-based Wells Enterprises has acquired the Dunkirk, New York manufacturing company Fieldbrook Foods. Wells Enterprises CEO and president Mike Wells, says, “The combination creates a stronger platform for growth and positions us to better […]

Democrats are urging Republicans in the legislature who control the budgeting process to boost spending for the state’s prisons. Over the past two years, spending for the Iowa Department of Corrections has been reduced by […]

The Des Moines Catholic Diocese released the names of nine priests with “substantiated allegations” that they had abused children while serving at parishes in the diocese. The list includes the names of two priests who […]

The former city clerk in the Fremont County town of Riverton is sentenced to home confinement for bank fraud. Fifty-seven-year-old Carol Jennings pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud after admitting that she opened […]

As the Iowa Senate began its session this morning, one senator asked to speak to her colleagues. Senator Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa grew emotional as she explained why she supports automatically restoring voting rights to […]

The Iowa Attorney General has reached a settlement where two chiropractors who sold a weight loss program in the state will give customers  refunds. AG spokesman Lynn Hicks says Bradley Cook sold the NutriMost program […]

The Veterans Administration opened a new outpatient clinic in Davenport this week, offering more room for more veterans to receive more services while cutting down on wait times. Iowa City VA Health Care System director […]

Events are planned across Iowa this month to raise awareness about the importance of being organ, eye and tissue donors. Deb Thielen, a registered nurse at Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City, says a […]

An Iowa Senate committee has added a number of election law changes to a narrow proposal that passed the Iowa House with unanimous, bipartisan support. The House bill aims to ensure mail-in ballots are counted […]

The governors of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri are asking the Army Corps of Engineers to come up with more flood-prevention solutions. The three governors and Army Corps officials met this in Council Bluffs and plan […]

Cedar Rapids fire investigators believe smoking led to a fatal fire Tuesday at a four-unit condominium complex. Firefighters found thick smoke coming out of one unit and found 61-year-old Toni Kay Cooley dead inside. They […]