State News

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on presidential candidates to prioritize drinking water in their policy plans. From lead pipes in schools to nitrates in rural areas, the director of Healing Our Water-Great Lakes […]

Southwest Iowa communities hit by this spring’s floods still face a critical housing shortage. Mills County public information officer Sheri Bowen says the situation is “very challenging” in her county and widespread in the Missouri […]

The University of Iowa is wrapping up its summertime project aimed at recruiting more Native Americans and other students from underrepresented populations. Carlos Nelson helps oversee the effort, called the Iowa First Nations Summer Program, […]

An explosion rocked a northwest Iowa feed mill Tuesday afternoon. No one was injured in the explosion at Deluxe Feeds in Sheldon, but the facility was damaged. According to a statement from Muscatine-based Kent Feeds […]

Vice President Mike Pence told a group Iowans this afternoon that the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement is part of the President Trump’s “America First” agenda. “The forgotten men and women of America are […]

The Woodbury County Attorney has ruled a Sioux City man who fatally shot an intruder in April justifiably acted in self-defense. The ruling states that the occupant of the home, 29-year-old Travis Gutierrez, justifiably used […]

The police chief in the northwest Iowa community of Kingsley has been charged with domestic abuse assault. The Plymouth County Sheriff says 51-year-old Joseph E. Hoover was booked into the Plymouth County Jail following the […]

A first-timer on the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bike Rider Across Iowa says the “most amazing thing” he’s seen so far is the Air Force Cycling Team. Dan Srp of Camanche says there are […]

Despite months of heavy flooding in the southwest Iowa community, Hamburg officials say Popcorn Day is still on for September. The annual town festival dates back to the 1960s. Judy Holliman, a member of the […]

Iowa junior linemen Alaric Jackson and Tristan Wirfs have been named to the 2019 Outland Trophy Preseason Watch List. Iowa is one only two Big Ten schools with two student-athletes named to the 83-player list. […]