State News

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says the final round of Local Food for Schools grants are out for this year. “What this is all about is providing some small grants, $2,000 to those school […]

There’s more legal trouble for a former employee of a north-central Iowa chamber of commerce, who was originally charged after more than $200,000 vanished. Leah Mulholland of Webster City was arrested last Saturday, accused of […]

Much of Iowa’s eastern third remains under excessive heat warnings and heat advisories today and many communities across the region are opening cooling centers. Polk County’s Extreme Temperature Plan also lowers the barrier for entry […]

More than 40 languages are spoken in Waterloo-Cedar Falls, ranging from Burmese to Bosnian, and from Spanish to Congolese French. Glen Keith, executive director of Love Incorporated, says the nonprofit faces an increasing challenge to […]

For the last time this summer, law enforcement agencies are ready to launch a STEP, or a Selective Traffic Enforcement Program. Iowa State Patrol spokesman Trooper Paul Gardner, from the Fort Dodge post, says STEP […]

A Sioux City woman who is the wife of a Woodbury County Supervisor has been released from a federal prison in Minnesota after serving time for voter fraud. Fifty-year-old Kim Taylor will now spend four […]

Police in central Iowa city are telling residents to not approach a water buffalo that is roaming around. Police in Pleasant Hill southeast of Des Moines say they were called about an animal in the […]

The exterior of Sioux City’s Art Center is now covered in vibrant colorful fabric as part of artist Amanda Browder’s work called “Razzle Dazzle.” Browder’s work began 18 months ago with an invitation for area […]

Waterloo School board members will vote tonight to either withdraw a $165-million plan to merge the city’s high schools or put it on the November ballot for voter approval. Waterloo Superintendent Jared Smith says significant […]

The State Hygienic Lab has confirmed the first case of West Nile Virus this year in a man in Harrison County. Iowa State University entomologist Ryan Smith oversees the state’s mosquito surveillance program. “This year […]