State News

The number of Iowans filing a first-time unemployment claim jumped 28 percent last week. At the same time, the total number of Iowans getting unemployment benefits fell by five percent. According to Iowa Workforce Development, […]

The search for a former Wartburg College music instructor who walked away from a long-term care facility in Waterloo late Monday night is entering its third day. A police report says 46-year-old Michael Jensen escaped […]

The company that runs the Dakota Access oil pipeline is appealing a federal judge’s order that the pipeline be shut down. On Monday, the judge gave Energy Transfer Partners 30 days to shut down the […]

Republican U.S. Senator Joni Ernst says she supports letting businesses get a second federal COVID-19 relief grant that can be converted to a loan — if the business uses 60 percent of the money to […]

The manager of an eastern Iowa senior apartment complex is sentenced to five years probation for defrauding an elderly and disabled nursing home resident. Fifty-nine-year-old Janice Kay Schultz of Dubuque admitted in a plea agreement […]

All residents and staff of a Mason City nursing home are being tested this week for COVID-19. The state website shows there’s a coronavirus outbreak at the Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City. While […]

Many of the nearly 8,200 absentee ballots cast in yesterday’s special election in Woodbury County were cast in the spring. The election was originally scheduled for April 14th, but Iowa’s secretary of state rescheduled it […]

The Mayor of Muscatine is continuing to defend her mask mandate for the city, even after the governor said local governments do not have the authority to issue the orders. Mayor Diana Broderson  says the […]

Twenty-six Iowa communities have won $100,000 grants from the Iowa Economic Development Authority to improve buildings. Jim Thompson oversees what’s called the Catalyst program. “Catalyst grants are primarily for buildings that are underutilized that need […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says the state trooper who hit a Black Lives Matter protester last week while driving her did nothing wrong. The protester, who was not hurt, has said he hoped that by positioning […]