State News

The president of the Iowa Association of Realtors says home sales across the state were up in August. John Goede says that’s not the only good thing he sees in the numbers. “And just as […]

Grinnell College is showing off its new collection of rare books, acquired from the Salisbury House in Des Moines. It includes some 5,000 first editions, signed books and documents from Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Abraham […]

The Iowa Department of Public Health says the number of vaping cases linked to severe respiratory illness have increased. The Health Department says there have been 23 reported cases in Iowa and no deaths. That […]

The actions of two eastern Iowa law officers are being called “reasonable” after the death of a man shortly after being taken into custody. Following a lengthy review, including of police body-cam footage, the Muscatine […]

University of Iowa Chief Financial Officer Terry Johnson is confident the school will be able to privatize its utility system. Under the plan, a winning bidder would pay the university a lump sum — which […]

An eastern Iowa man who admitted to taking advantage of a 14-year-old girl will spend 32 years in federal prison. Thirty-year-old Kevin Herrig pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and the receipt of […]

One person was killed in a car-semi collision Thursday near Duncombe in Webster County. The Iowa Highway Patrol says a westbound 2017 Subaru Forester driven by Ricky Mason of Dysart was in the right hand […]

An economist who monitors Iowa’s farm sector says things would be far worse if the Trump Administration hadn’t given farmers $28 billion in trade relief payments. Iowa State University economist Chad Hart says the farm […]

A businessman from Arnolds Park is the fourth Republican to announce a challenge to Republican Congressman Steve King’s bid for a 10th term in the U.S. House. Steve Reeder is a commercial real estate broker. […]

Mason City police and school leaders are reacting to a racist video that was recently published on social media. One of the two teen girls in the video is a family member of a Mason […]