State News

A team from the state auditor’s office has concluded thousands of dollars in cash from ticket and concession sales for events in the Wapsie Valley school district didn’t get deposited. The review concluded about $13,700 […]

First district Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer got engaged this weekend. Finkenauer, who’s from Dubuque, was elected to the U.S. House in 2018. Her fiance is Daniel Wasta, the Iowa political director for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign. […]

Class 4A 1. WDM Valley (8-0), LW #1 vs DSM North 2. Dowling Catholic (7-1), LW #2 @ Sioux City North 3. Cedar Falls (8-0), LW #3 vs CR Prairie 4. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (7-1), […]

Minnesota Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar toured a dozen Iowa counties over the past weekend that voted for Barack Obama, then voted for Donald Trump. Klobuchar was also one of half a dozen […]

A weekend chase in central Iowa, where speeds reached 120 miles-an-hour, ended in a deadly crash. The Iowa State Patrol investigated an accident early Saturday morning at the 121 southbound exit to Interstate 35 in […]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says two incidents on the water had very different endings. The agency says a father and teenage son were duck hunting in western Iowa’s Monona County on Sunday when […]

The drivers of the state’s snowplows are in a sort of spring training mode as they prepare for the upcoming winter weather. DOT winter operations manager, Craig Bargfrede, says just like athletes — plow drivers […]

A University of Iowa professor who’s done extensive research on farmer suicide is applauding proposed new legislation in Congress to address the worsening issue. Corinne Peek-Asa, a U-I professor of occupational and environmental health, says […]

Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren says in the coming weeks she will release the policies she’d pursue as president to finance “Medicare for All.” “I’m ready to put out a plan soon on exactly what the […]

Just in time for Halloween, two Davenport-area men are publishing a nonfiction book about the supernatural called “Ghosts of the Quad Cities.” Michael McCarty says it all started when he and coauthor Mark McLaughlin visited […]