State News

After a third round of flooding hit southwest Iowa last month, Iowa Congressman Steve King met Wednesday with officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Missouri Valley. The goal was to find ways […]

A teenage climate change activist from Sweden says she’ll be in Iowa on Friday. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg has won global attention for her activism. Just Monday, she addressed the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit in […]

Grinnell College has signed an agreement to buy solar generated power to provide around 30 percent of its electricity needs on campus. The cochair of the schools’s Sustainability Committee, Chris Bair, says Trusted Energy is […]

The wealthiest Iowan has reportedly made a significant addition to his fortunes. Forbes magazine shows only one Iowan on its list of the 400 richest Americans, Harry Stine, who founded Stine Seed in the 1950s. […]

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says there are dangers associated with “vaping” and she’s discussing policy options with key advisers. “I think it’s alarming what we’re continuing to see and the increase in the number of […]

Nearly 400 farmers and ranchers gathered in Omaha Wednesday for a rally to protest low cattle prices and high profits for beef processors. Organizers say meat packers are manipulating the cattle markets and the Trump […]

An author who taught creative writing at the University of Iowa will be back in the state this weekend to promote her latest book. Eileen Pollack says her new novel, “The Professor of Immortality,” was […]

The Iowa Department of Public Health has released a new report which gives a more in depth look at violent deaths in Iowa. Pat McGovern is the suicide prevention director for DPH. “We we characterize […]

A World War Two-era military plane that crashed in Connecticut Wednesday, killing seven people and injuring seven others, was on display in northeast Iowa this summer. The B-17 Flying Fortress came to the Waterloo Regional […]

Police say a Fort Dodge minister was robbed and murdered outside his church. Sixty-four-year-old Allen W. Henderson of Fort Dodge died of injuries after he was assaulted outside St. Paul Lutheran Church early Wednesday evening. […]