State News

More than 425,000 Iowa Medicaid patients will have to sign up with a new “managed care organization” now that the state and United Healthcare are ending their business deal. However, it’s unclear if there’s a […]

Today is “equal pay day,” the symbolic day when women’s wages on average catch up to men’s earnings from the previous year. In Iowa, women generally make about 79-percent of what men do, less for […]

An Ames man will serve 30 years in prison for sexual exploitation and child pornography charges. Twenty-eight-year-old Tyler Harris pleaded guilty in November to six counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of […]

As floodwaters in southwest Iowa slowly recede, forecasters fear large storms could develop soon that would make a bad situation worse. Kevin Low, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Missouri Basin Forecast Center, says […]

A Senate-passed bill that’s now part of the abortion debate is now in limbo in the House. The bill would establish a life prison sentence for someone convicted of intentionally or accidentally causing the termination […]

Rain in March added to the snowmelt and caused flooding in the state — but state climatologist Justin Glisan says there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary in the overall weather picture. “Typically we expect […]

A House-endorsed plan to make a few adjustments to Iowa’s medical marijuana law has cleared its first hurdle in the Iowa Senate. Senator Rich Taylor, a Democrat from Mount Pleasant, said he’d like to do […]

One of Governor Kim Reynolds’ top policy priorities faces an important legislative deadline this week. A bill that would let women who are at least 18 get some forms of birth control from a pharmacist […]

The leader of the Iowa National Guard has announced plans to retire on May 1st. Major General Tim Orr was appointed to the job by then Governor Chet Culver in March of 2009. “I’ve been […]

Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar visited flooded areas of southwest and northwest Iowa this weekend, emphasizing the need to improve flood protection measures and make “climate smart” infrastructure choices. Klobuchar, a U.S. Senate from Minnesota, […]

As floodwaters slowly fall in many parts of the state, Iowa farmers are getting back onto their properties to survey the damage and to prepare for spring planting, if possible. Iowa State University Extension farm […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says the Army Corps of Engineers should give flood control a higher priority in its management plan for the Missouri River. Grassley spoke with a crowd of farmers and others from […]

Iowa’s lone national cemetery in Keokuk was the site of a special ceremony Friday morning to mark National Vietnam War Veterans Day. More than 60 people attended and heard from Mayor Tom Richardson. “Thank you […]

Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren today said if she’s elected president, she would use anti-trust laws to break up what she calls “the giants” in the agricultural sector. “We have laws to protect competition…They’ve been on […]

Iowa’s former secretary of agriculture is back in the state to survey flood damage and talk to displaced residents, especially farmers who have had many hundreds of acres underwater. Bill Northey, now an undersecretary at […]

Floodwaters are gradually falling but residents in four southwest Iowa communities who were required to evacuate due to flooding haven’t seen their homes in about two weeks. Matt Schoville and his family had to flee […]

Investigators with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources say they traced manure runoff that led to a fish kill in Dubuque County to the Lawler Dairy in Peosta. DNR environmental specialist, Brett Meyers, says they […]

The author whose book “The Art of Racing in the Rain” spent three years on the New York Times best-seller list is one of the featured speakers at this weekend’s Des Moines Book Festival. Audio:  […]

Organizers of a rally a few hours before Saturday’s presidential candidate forum in Storm Lake say shrinking market options for farmers must be addressed. Many of the Democratic candidates who’ve been traveling through Iowa this […]

Producers from other parts of Iowa are coming to the aid of those in flood-stricken areas. Three semis from a group of Story County cattlemen delivered approximately 30 round bales of alfalfa and 72 square […]