State News

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is doing his best to straddle a very thin line as to whether President Trump’s tweet on Sunday about four Democratic women in Congress was racist. Grassley was asked about the […]

A team of 70 cyclists, all with some sort of physical disability, will pedal across Iowa on the week-long bicycle ride known as RAGBRAI starting this coming weekend. Hannah Lundeen is the coordinator of Adaptive […]

A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say runoff into the upper Missouri River basin for 2019 is nearly double its average. The latest data from the Corps says 38.3 million acre feet […]

A group of employees and activists gathered at a McDonald’s restaurant in Des Moines  today for a “Fight for 15” rally — as they seek to get their minimum wage raised to $15 an hour. […]

After seven years of litigation and a six-week trial, a jury has decided former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad discriminated against a gay state official. The jury awarded former Workers’ Compensation Commissioner Christopher Godfrey $1.5 million […]

Former Vice President Joe Biden says he wants to improve, not replace the Affordable Care Act, by adding a “public option” — letting people under the age of 65 buy Medicare-like coverage. “I think it’s […]

State Senator Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa is exploring a fourth run for a seat in congress. Miller-Meeks, a Republican, ran unsuccessfully against Democratic Congressman Dave Loebsack in 2008, 2010 and 2014. Loebsack is not seeking […]

After being closed twice by spring floods, the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is open again, hopefully for good. The 8,300 acre refuge in southwest Iowa was forced to put up barricades in March when the […]

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission got a look at some of the technology that will be used for sports gambling during their meeting last week. Iowa Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says the […]

Ten Democratic presidential candidates courted left-leaning caucus-goers in Cedar Rapids Sunday. Each candidate got about 10 minutes to speak to about a thousand people at Progress Iowa’s fifth annual “Corn Feed.” South Bend, Indiana Mayor […]