State News

Fourteen candidates are set to speak tonight at the Iowa Democratic Party’s annual fall fundraiser in Des Moines, but some of the campaigns aren’t waiting until the doors of Wells Fargo Arena open at 4:30 […]

Trick-or-Treaters had to thaw out their mini candy bars when they got home for the evening Thursday. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says the cold and snowy spook night summed up the story on October. “It […]

The Easton Valley School District, with schools in Preston and Miles, has canceled classes today after a threat on social media last night. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department reported the school district administration notified them […]

California Senator Kamala Harris enters November after spending nearly half of October campaigning in Iowa — the most of any of the Democratic presidential candidates — and this week she shifted staff from California, Nevada […]

The Independence city council has approved a five-year contract to install speed and red light cameras along a quarter-mile stretch of First Street West where there are two elementary schools and two preschools and daycare […]

More than 13,000 people are expected at the Iowa Democratic Party’s “Liberty and Justice Celebration” this evening, by far the largest crowd ever for the annual party fundraiser. Six months ago, Iowa Democratic Party chairman […]

A prominent Des Moines attorney who was the Democratic Party’s first female candidate for governor has endorsed Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar’s bid for the White House. Roxanne Conlin was also the first woman president of […]

A man is now charged in the Christopher Bagley murder case in Linn County. Thirty-two-year-old Drew Blahnik was indicted by a Linn County grand jury on the charges of first-degree murder, obstructing prosecution and abuse […]

Iowans who have diabetes are waging a campaign with emails, calls and letters to members of Congress, urging them to pass what’s called the Special Diabetes Program. Aryn Lloyd, a volunteer advocate for the Eastern […]

The death of a former Sioux City realtor has turned into a homicide investigation. Woodbury County Sheriff Dave Drew says they were called out last Thursday to the home of David Davenport on the report […]