State News

This fall’s presidential election was the focus of Republican gatherings in Iowa this weekend. Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who hosted a campaign fundraiser in Cedar Rapids Saturday afternoon, is running for a third term in […]

Iowa State football coach Matt Campbell held his annual preseason meeting with the media today. Campbell says he likes the way this team has shaped up with mix of returning players, new players and those […]

DNR hydrologist Tim Hall says it looks like July will end up slightly wetter than normal once the final numbers are in. He says it continues the string of normal or above normal months that […]

The bus carrying Sioux City’s minor league baseball team caught fire early this (Friday) morning on its way to a game in a Chicago suburb. J.D. Scholten, a 44-year-old who’s been a replacement pitcher for […]

Volunteers are needed in north-central Iowa this weekend to help clean up a stretch of the Boone River. In years past, they’ve hauled out everything from water heaters to wagon wheels. They’ll be clearing out […]

The U-S Environmental Protection Agency has ended its oversight of clean-up at the eastern Iowa recycling facility that exploded in late 2022. Asphalt shingles were being recycled at the C6-Zero plant in Marengo. Twenty employees […]

Organizers plan to serve 6000 ears of sweet corn tomorrow during Sweet Corn Days in Estherville. The festival started last night in Estherville’s Library Square with a “burning of the cobs” and the making of […]

A felon who walked away from a Madison, Wisconsin halfway house in 1994 has been captured in Iowa. Seventy-one-year-old George Hartleroad was convicted of rape in Chippewa County in 1983. Several weeks ago, Hartleroad was […]

While some states are reporting a tremendous summer surge in COVID-19 cases, the numbers are slowly rising in Iowa and are still considered moderate. Megan Meller, an infection preventionist at Gundersen Health System, says the […]

Iowa retailers that sell clothing, shoes, or both will likely be significantly busier over the next two days, as this is the state’s annual sales tax-free weekend. John Fuller, spokesman for the Iowa Department of […]