State News

If you’ve ever longed to smack a baseball into the green cornfield on the famed northeast Iowa diamond where the movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed, this weekend is your golden chance. The Muscular Dystrophy […]

The population of the southwest Iowa town of Saint Charles is officially 653, but that’s swelling this weekend by many times over. The 5th annual Hinterland Music Festival is opening this (Friday) afternoon and runs […]

The remains of a central Iowa Army soldier are returning home after 75 years. Corporal Ralph Bennett, an Ames native, was listed as killed in action after disappearing in June of 1944 as his unit […]

A 31-year-old western Iowa man who offered to pay for sex with someone online that he thought was a 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to a decade in federal prison. In September of last year, […]

Forecasters say much of Iowa will have sunny skies and moderate summertime temperatures through the weekend, but the months ahead may be much cooler and wetter. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the just-ended month of […]

The company that manufactures medical marijuana in Iowa is introducing a line of medical cannabis vapor products that will be soon be available. MedPharm Iowa’s Lucas Nelson says this will give patients a new option. […]

A 32-year-old Iowa man who’d been living in China faced three drug-related charges and will go on trial in Cedar Rapids. Levi Wallace has been charged with one count of importing a controlled substance, one […]

Today (Friday) is the grand opening for a former sewing factory in downtown Dyersville that has been converted into a brewery. Carol and Tom Olberding have named their business the Textile Brewing Company. “It started […]

Whether you’re shopping for clothes for yourself or for your kids heading back to school, you can save a nice chunk of change with this weekend’s annual Sales Tax Holiday. John Fuller, a spokesman for […]

The State Board of Education Thursday voted down proposed new rules for using restraints and seclusion rooms for students in a procedural move to allow them to make changes. There are still concerns about how […]