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Former Vice President Joe Biden today said President Trump’s trade policies are “beating up” on American farmers and the administration’s ethanol waivers for oil companies are a “gigantic mistake.” “We should not be exempting,” Biden […]

Iowa Wesleyan football coach Michael Richtman says the focus for his team is about finishing. The Tigers were 1-9 a year ago and in three of the losses they were tied in the fourth quarter. […]

Iowa Congresswoman Cindy Axne and others are calling for a federal investigation into the waiver process that allows oil refineries to bypass the regulations for mixing renewable fuels with their products. The West Des Moines […]

The state program for testing private drinking water wells suffers from “severe under-utilization,” according to a University of Iowa study. The “Grants To Counties” program funds testing for nitrate, bacteria and arsenic, as well as […]

A Missouri man who ran what’s called the largest fraudulent organic grain scheme in U.S. history through his northeast Iowa brokerage firm has taken his own life. Sixty-one-year-old Randy Constant of Chillicothe, Missouri pleaded guilty […]

Three people from Oskaloosa are in custody in connection with a woman’s death earlier this month. The Iowa Department of Public Safety has been looking into the death of 24-year-old Ashley Shafer of Oskaloosa since […]

Governor Kim Reynolds was asked Tuesday about the mounting legal bill as state lawyers seek to have a verdict awarding a former labor commissioner $1.5-million dollars thrown out. The discrimination case involved former Governor Terry […]

The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s lending operation will be in Sioux City today to meet with lenders and to visit businesses that are prospering thanks, in part, to SBA. loans. Bill Manger, […]

The Democratic presidential candidates who spoke during a two-day forum in Sioux City addressed what some call an “epidemic” of violence against Native American women. Former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro said it’s time to […]

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke tonight said his goal now is to help the country “connect the dots” and take action to curb the kind of gun violence that erupted in his hometown of El […]