State News

The dry weather is starting to take its toll on the state’s crops. The latest crop report from the U.S.D.A. shows the corn crop overall is rated at 73% good to excellent condition. That’s down […]

Iowa’s economy is gradually recovering from the deep drop caused by the pandemic, according to the monthly Creighton University survey of supply managers and business leaders in Iowa — and in eight other states. Creighton […]

Two central Iowa school boards are resisting the governor’s order that districts begin the school year with in-person instruction. The Waukee School Board and the district’s superintendent issued a written statement last night. It included […]

Students at the three state schools are starting to move back into the dorms this week for the beginning of the fall semester. There are usually no tests given in the first weeks — but […]

A scientist who helped to build the atomic bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of people during World War Two went on to become one of the world’s greatest builders of cathedral pipe organs. That […]

An analysis prepared for the National Corn Growers Association concludes American corn farmers will lose $89 an acre in revenue this year — due to the pandemic. “There are some economists predicting that are projecting….the […]

The state medical director whose public profile has been elevated during the pandemic has gotten a big pay boost. Dr. Caitlin Pedati’s boss is Department of Human Services director Kelly Garcia, who is now the […]

A ribbon cutting was held in the Hamilton County community of Jewell this morning for the reopening of the town’s grocery store. The Jewell Market is back in business after the community’s residents rallied to […]

A man and a woman from Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska, died early Sunday in a single-vehicle crash in southwest Iowa’s Mills County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 21-year-old Nicholas David Johnson and […]

With low temperatures this morning in the 40s and 50s across Iowa, it’s becoming clear that August could contain a radical shift from the extreme heat of July. State climatologist Justin Glisan says July wrapped […]