State News

An eastern Iowa man will spend more than three years in federal prison for using drugs and buying guns. Police say twenty-six year-old Nathan Fisher of Cedar Rapids admitted he purchased a handgun in August […]

The State of Iowa is getting a $10 million federal grant to develop new strategies for improving maternal health. Thirty-nine pregnant Iowa women died in the past three years. “I think we need to worry […]

The City of Manchester recorded rainfall amounts between three and four inches in the past 24 hours and that has caused the Maquoketa River to spill out of its banks. The water is covering West […]

Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has not yet seen a document outlining how the Trump Administration may address farmers’ fury over ethanol waivers granted to oil refineries. “I’m optimistic that we’ll hopefully get something this week, […]

A man working at a hog confinment near Le Mars is at a hospital in Nebraska for treatment of severe burns after a fire near the hog barn on Monday. Le Mars Fire Chief Dave […]

Prolonged trade wars and a continued shortage of qualified workers are two key factors in the weakening Midwestern economy, according to a survey of supply managers in Iowa and eight other states. Creighton University economist […]

Tuesday marked the one-year countdown to the federal regulation that requires you to have your driver’s license certified as a “REAl ID” to be able to use it as identification for flying. Iowa DOT Director […]

September wrapped up in Iowa feeling more like June. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the statewide average temperature for the month ended up around 68 degrees, which is 5 degrees warmer than normal. Glisan says […]

Iowa’s attorney general is going to court, asking that the Iowa Insurance Division be allowed to step in and try to recoup the money for people who paid in advance for their funerals at two […]

Heavy rains swept through parts of southwest Iowa Tuesday that are still recovering from flooding in March and May — and a more recent spate of high water last week. Mills County Emergency Management Coordinator […]