State News

Grinnell College has canceled its remaining football games. Athletic Director Any Hamilton says the squad only had 28 healthy players for this week’s game at St. Norbert. “We knew what we needed to do based […]

Two women who  admitted to intentionally damaging the Dakota Access Pipeline running through Iowa face several federal charges. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa says a federal grand jury has charged Jessica […]

A district court judge has ruled that some sort of identification card can be required for in-person voting on Election Day in Iowa, but the judge has rejected two other voting rules Republican lawmakers enacted […]

A spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says they have been unable to find the source of the pollution that caused a weekend fish kill in Backbone State Park. The DNR’s Tom McCarthy […]

With forecasts calling for up to five inches of rain over three days this week, several counties in southwest Iowa are preparing for more Missouri River flooding. Michael Bertacini is an emergency management specialist with […]

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has issued a statement this morning, criticizing “uninformed speculation” about the whistleblower whose complaint is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry in the U.S. House. Grassley has been an […]

A 14-year-old Fort Dodge boy was apprehended Monday on a charge of “threat of terrorism” after allegedly posting an ad online for the position of “school shooter.” Authorities were made aware of the online job […]

The wet weather that delayed the planting season has returned to hinder the harvest. The U.S.D.A. crop report out Monday shows there were only about three days suitable for fieldwork last week because of poor […]

A Republican from Ottumwa who’s a member of the state senate is launching another bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mariannette Miller-Meeks ran for congress in 2008, 2010 and 2014, losing […]

The public library in Dubuque is giving away 4,000 copies of a book as part of a community-wide reading program. Library director Susan Henricks says the book is “Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and […]