State News

The Iowa Court of Appeals has denied a new trial for a former Independence High School art teacher found guilty of sexual exploitation of a student. 40-year-old Kari Schwartz was convicted in 2021 after a […]

The Iowa Valley Community College District has named a new president. Anne Howsare Boyens will replace Kristie Fisher, who is leaving to become the president of Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. Howsare-Boynes says she […]

A film that tells the story of German soldiers who spent Christmas at a P-O-W camp in Algona back in 1944 has won the top movie of the year award from a faith based entertainment […]

The State of Iowa has nearly $5.4 billion in unspent tax dollars and the governor’s promising much of it will be the fuel for tax cuts. The final report on the state fiscal year that […]

With a federal government shutdown looming this weekend, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says it’s “idiocy” to be going through this process again. The U.S. Senate has created a bipartisan package that’s designed to temporarily fund […]

Iowa might be quieter than usual around the holidays this year as a survey finds a large percentage of the state’s residents are planning to go, well, someplace else. Brian Ortner, spokesman for AAA Iowa, […]

A leader in the union that represents 19-thousand federal employees who work in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas says some of them will be required to work, without pay, if there’s a federal government […]

It’s still early, but the harvest season in northwest Iowa is getting off to a good start, according to ISU Extension agronomist Leah Ten Napel. “Overall, we have a lot of acres left to go,” […]

The rain farmers have been hoping for slowed some of the harvest last week. The U.S.D.A. reports says rainfall cut the time in the field by about two days. The corn harvest is now 9% […]

An already-crowded Animal Rescue League of Iowa is even shorter on space now after teams were dispatched to Boone County where nearly a hundred dogs had to be removed from what’s described as a puppy […]