State News

The four U.S. senators from Iowa and Nebraska are working together on a bill that would return a tract of land that was seized from the Winnebago Tribe in the 1970s. The land along the […]

The National Weather Service is warning there’s an elevated fire risk in much of Iowa due to warm temperatures, strong southwest winds and dry ground conditions. Alexis Jimenez, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service […]

A 24-year-old Des Moines man has been charged with murdering a woman who was found with stab wounds at a hotel across the street from the State Fairgrounds early this morning. According to a news […]

It’s been 11 days since Alliant Energy shut off the power to the mall in Marshalltown due to unpaid utility bills. John Hall, President and CEO of the Marshalltown Chamber of Commerce, said the New […]

Iowans are urged to take steps to avoid becoming fraud victims and to prevent the misuse of public funds in their own communities. As part of International Fraud Awareness Week, State Auditor Rob Sand wants […]

The latest USDA Crop and Weather Report shows Iowa’s soybean harvest is “nearly complete” and 94% of corn that’s harvested for grain is out of the fields. The 2023 corn harvest in Iowa is about […]

The Iowa Department of Public Safety has announced a tow truck operator was struck and killed late Sunday night on Interstate 80 in central Iowa and a semi driver has been charged with vehicular homicide. […]

Long-range weather forecasts predict favorable conditions in Iowa for Thanksgiving next week, while the travel forecast indicates it’ll be a very busy holiday on Iowa’s roads. Brian Ortner, spokesman for AAA-Iowa, says their estimates are […]

Republican Randy Feenstra, who represents Iowa’s fourth congressional district in the U.S. House, is co-sponsoring a bill called the Farm to Fly Act. It’s designed to spur development of aviation fuel made with a range […]

The board that governs Iowa’s three state-supported universities has shortened its name and released a new logo. A state government realignment law took effect July 1. It shifted the Iowa School for the Deaf and […]

An elderly central Iowa couple was killed in a car crash last night. Des Moines police say a Buick was turning at an intersection when it was struck on the passenger side by a Camaro. […]

A YouTube channel that’s profiled more than 800 independently owned restaurants will feature a restaurant along an eastern Iowa river that has a “Wall of Honor” for Vietnam veterans. Roger Zearley is co-owner of the […]

Authorities in eastern Iowa are investigating a fatal crash involving two pedestrians. Cedar Rapids police say a man and a woman were crossing Memorial Drive late Sunday afternoon when both were hit by a vehicle. […]

An elderly central Iowa couple was killed in a car crash last night. Des Moines police say a Buick being driven by a 76-year-old man and carrying a 79-year-old woman was turning at an intersection […]

The preferred design for a new Interstate-80 bridge in the Quad Cities will be unveiled at an online hearing on Wednesday and the public will be given a chance to comment. The current I-80 bridge […]

State officials say a man from a small town in central Illinois was killed this weekend while hunting in Guthrie County. According to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 26-year-old Seth Egelhoff Chesterfield, Illinois was […]

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services plans to sell some of its land at all five of its state-owned facilities. HHS owns and operates mental health institutions in Cherokee and Independence, the Boys […]

State and federal officials have announced confirmed cases of bird flu at four sites in the past three days. On Saturday, the Iowa Department of Agriculture announced a hatchery in Kossuth County for game birds […]

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has suspended his presidential campaign. Scott made the announcement on a Fox News program tonight, saying the message is clear that voters are telling him “not now.” Scott had cancelled […]

Authorities in central Iowa are seeing an upturn in the number of seizures of a drug so dangerous, even touching the tablets could be lethal. Captain Nick Lennie, chief deputy of the Story County Sheriff’s […]