State News

A fifth and final book club meeting is scheduled in Red Oak today — for discussion of a 448-page publication that’s at the center of the country’s political debate. Barb Nelson, a Democrat from Red […]

Class 4A 1. Johnston (23-4), LW #1 2. Iowa City West (26-6), LW #2 3. Western Dubuque (25-6), LW #3 4. Urbandale (22-10), LW #6 5. Des Moines Roosevelt (22-5), LW #4 6. Southeast Polk […]

Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn says the fiscal year that ended June 30th was a good one for the organization. Strawn declined to give an actual figure, as he says the numbers aren’t yet final. […]

Iowa advocates for renewable fuels are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules for refiners. The EPA has released its recommendations for the Renewable Fuels Standard in 2020. The amount of conventional ethanol that must […]

Hundreds of volunteers will spend much of the next week in canoes, working to clear trash out of the Boone River in north-central Iowa. Brian Soenen is coordinator of Iowa Project AWARE, which stands for […]

By the end of this week, nine Democratic presidential candidates will have passed through the state and, so far this year, the party’s two dozen candidates have appeared at more than 600 events here. Gene […]

The leaders of Iowa’s two major political parties say they’re meeting with vendors and are planning to use the same “app” for reporting the results of the Iowa Caucuses on February 3, 2020. Iowa Democrats […]

Des Moines police are now holding a suspect they say is responsible for a fatal hit-and-run crash early Thursday morning. Police say the driver of an SUV was speeding, ran a red light and hit […]

More roadways that have been closed by flooding for months in southwest Iowa are back open. DOT planner Scott Suhr says they’ve reopened the Interstate 29 and Iowa 2 interchange. “You can get from essentially […]

West Des Moines police are now releasing details about a fatal police shooting on Wednesday night. Police responded to a 911 call about a domestic disturbance. At a house, officers were confronted by 26-year old […]