State News

One person was killed in a single-vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon on Interstate-80 near Walnut. According to the Iowa State Patrol, 21-year-old Dylin Roxane Rae Sears, of La Vista, Nebraska, was driving a 2007 Hyundai Sonata […]

The weather was drier — but the latest U.S.D.A. crop report doesn’t show a lot of progress with the harvest. The report says field conditions remained wet and that limited farmers to around three working […]

Delaware County is getting ready to accept bids for construction of the new county jail and sheriff’s office. Delaware County voters approved the $5.9 million project this spring. The county just recently closed on the […]

A former Republican congressman and radio talk show host from Illinois who’s challenging President Trump’s bid for re-election says while party leaders continue to defend President Trump, rank-and-file Republicans are starting to move in a […]

Governor Kim Reynolds is forming a committee to develop a new set of criminal justice reform recommendations. “To build on the ‘second chance’ initiatives that I started last year,” Reynolds says. Reynolds says the group’s […]

A former Des Moines Register columnist who hosted many of the newspaper’s yearly bike rides across the state of Iowa is hoping for a reconciliation that keeps the event’s management team in place. The man […]

Iowa’s ethanol and biodiesel industry reacted in disbelief and anger today after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft policy on future biofuels production targets. The president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association was first […]

Iowa’s 4th District Congressman Steve King says he’s not surprised President Donald Trump is imposing tough economic sanctions on Turkey as that nation invades northern Syria. The attacks target Kurds who are allied with the […]

There were comments on both sides of the issue as the Sioux City city council voted 4-1 on the first reading of an ordinance Monday to drop the ban on pit bulls. Former city councilman […]

Federal officials today announced an ear, nose and throat doctor in Carroll with clinics in eight other Iowa cities has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations of Medicaid billing fraud. The doctor said […]