State News

Thousands of bicyclists are making their way from Atlantic to Winterset on this second day of the statewide ride called RAGBRAI. During the overnight stop in Atlantic, several members of Team Bad Monkey discussed some […]

Clean-up is underway in Waverly after a weekend storm injured five people and left wide-spread damage throughout the northeast Iowa community. Officials say straight-line winds uprooted trees and blew down utility lines around noon on […]

Thousands of bicycle riders will be pedaling into Burlington on Friday and community leaders say they’ll be ready, despite intense flooding there just a few weeks ago. The Mississippi River town is an overnight host […]

Middle school students from the Hamburg Community School District will be hard at work this fall building a new home for a family impacted by this year’s Missouri River flooding. Hamburg Superintendent Mike Wells says […]

A businessman who made his debut on Iowa’s political stage nearly a year ago has made the idea of a “universal basic income” the centerpiece of his campaign. “I’m Andrew Yang. I’m running for president […]

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is defending his “Medicare for All” plan as some competitors for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination warn embracing the proposal could doom the party’s prospects next year. “Those candidate who […]

Eastern Iowans will have the opportunity to share their hopes and concerns for the flood-prone Mississippi River at a public meeting this weekend. Officials from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Upper Mississippi […]

The four Democratic presidential candidates who spoke at a forum in Sioux City Friday agree the nation’s health care system needs reform, but they differ on how aggressive the effort should be. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth […]

The weather has been unpredictable from hot to cold in the last year — but that’s not the case for the unemployment rate. Iowa Workforce Development’s Donna Burkett says June keep the run intact. “Twelve […]

Thirty years ago today, a United Airlines DC-10 jetliner crashed-landed in Sioux City and killed 112 people, though more than 180 survived. Flight 232 was headed from Denver to Chicago on July 19th, 1989 when […]