State News

The legislature’s top Republicans say there will be no investigation in the legislative branch of why Governor Kim Reynolds forced the head of the Department of Human Services to resign. Former DHS director Jerry Foxhoven […]

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says Customs and Border Patrol officers are doing their best  — but there’s a very real humanitarian crisis on the southern border. Ernst, a Republican from Red Oak, visited McAllen, Texas […]

A seven-year-old girl escaped injury after she climbed up a water tower in Estherville this  morning and got stuck at the top. Estherville Police were called shortly after 10 a.m. about a missing girl with […]

The annual statewide roadside survey will start next week, giving the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and hunters, vital data about the health of populations of wild game, like pheasants. Todd Bogenschutz, a wildlife biologist […]

A bicyclist who was hit by a car in Waterloo Tuesday afternoon has died of injuries he suffered in the accident. Police confirm that 22-year-old Dilail Salkic of Waterloo died on Wednesday. The accident involving […]

Statewide elected officials have approved spending nearly $7.8 million to buy a Des Moines office building. The four-story structure will be the new home of the Iowa Economic Development Authority. The Iowa Finance Authority already […]

Iowa State University is studying ways to use soybean oil instead of petroleum-based oil as a bonding agent in asphalt for making roads. Rolland Schnell, a soybean farmer from Newton, says it’s a tremendous opportunity […]

A north-central Iowa drug kingpin convicted for the 1993 murders of three witnesses and two children is scheduled to be executed in January after the U.S. Justice Department says it will carry out executions of […]

A filmmaker from New York is in Sioux City this week, doing research for his follow up to a documentary made in the late 1970’s. Jay Shapiro’s film will look at the aftermath of Zenith’s […]

A Des Moines man is in custody after a high speed and long distance chase. Shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, a Knoxville policeman stopped a car for an equipment violation. What the officer didn’t know […]