State News

The popularity of fishing has surged during the pandemic — and state records show one out of every 10 Iowans now has a fishing license. Jeff Kopaska works in the Fisheries Bureau at the Iowa […]

A library curator at the University of Iowa will join “Star Trek” actor William Shatner and a list of other celebrities, authors and science fiction experts in a Ray Bradbury Read-a-thon next month. The event […]

The new report from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows more counties now showing dry conditions. The Iowa DNR’s Tim Hall says the negative outweighs the positive in the report. “We had a little bit of […]

A Council Bluffs man will spend 40 years in prison on child pornography charges. Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Brandstrom was sentenced to consecutive sentences of 360 months in federal prison for production of child pornography and 120 […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa school districts given permission to conduct all classes online due to high COVID case counts may do so for 14 days. Districts will have to again get state officials’ permission […]

Unemployment claims dropped again in the last week. Iowa Workforce Development says continuing unemployment claims were down by 4,970 from the previous week, to 110,960. The number of first-time unemployment claims were down by 1,370, […]

The Iowa State Education Association says 36,000 people have signed an online petition opposing Governor Kim Reynolds’ requirement that 50% of school instruction be in-person. Some districts planned to keep classes mostly, or completely, virtual […]

A southwest Iowa man is was arrested Wednesday for the murder of a Des Moines man in Madison County. Forty-one-year-old Gerald Parker, of Creston, faces a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the shooting […]

A collision Wednesday afternoon in southwest Iowa killed a Montgomery County woman. The crash happened east of Emerson at around 1:45-p.m., when a pickup driven by Leonard Ray Anderson, of Omaha, failed to stop at […]

A state agency will take “additional steps” to enforce social distancing in Iowa bars and restaurants and that includes shutting a business down for violations. The announcement from the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division includes a […]