State News

As many Iowa schools start classes this week, the state’s teacher shortage may be lessening, according to a source at the University of Iowa’s College of Education. Professor Mark McDermott, the UI’s Associate Dean for […]

Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions has submitted a revised pipeline permit application to utility regulators in North Dakota. Earlier this month North Dakota’s Public Service Commission rejected the company’s application for a 320 mile route through […]

Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson says former President Donald Trump’s absence from Wednesday’s debate will give the candidates who are there a chance to have a “serious policy discussion.” “There’s a lot of differences there […]

Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd says Donald Trump lost in 2020, prevented Republicans from having a red wave in 2022 and will lose to Joe Biden in 2024. “You have to be clear and tell […]

Questions continue after the USS Sioux City was decommissioned this week barely five years after being put to sea. Sioux City Chamber of Commerce president Chris McGowen attended the decommissioning Monday. “While the commissioning is […]

Southeast Iowa’s Van Buren County is hosting its 37th annual Bike Van Buren this weekend, where cyclists can enjoy the landscape, the rural lifestyle and, of course, the home-baked pies. Emily Starnes, executive director of […]

  Senator Joni Ernst says the fourth indictment against former President Trump has had little impact on the 2024 presidential race. “Folks are really becoming desensitized because there are so many indictments out there,” Ernst […]

A Fort Dodge mother charged with first-degree murder in the death of her infant daughter has followed the baby’s father and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Taylor Blaha pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in […]

The Iowa Aviation Museum is holding its 30th annual Wings Fly-In/Drive-In and Hall of Fame induction Saturday in Greenfield. The museum’s Kris Schildberg says this year’s Hall of Fame inductee is Jim Zangger, who’s been […]

Work has begun to fix a 40-foot side sinkhole near Knoxville. An Iowa Department of Agriculture engineer’s report concluded the sinkhole formed when an abandoned limestone mine underneath collapsed. Decorah-based Bruening Rock Products operates a […]

The National Weather Service forecast is calling for hot and humid air to flow into Iowa this weekend and it could stick around through the middle of next week. The conditions might be uncomfortable for […]

The 11 day reign of a big pig from northwest Iowa will end this Sunday. Sasquatch, this year’s Big Boar at the Iowa State Fair, weighed in at just over a thousand pounds. Wilbur Kehrli […]

Some schools and colleges are trying to ban students from using artificial intelligence in their coursework, but a University of Iowa instructor is encouraging her students to embrace AI in all of her writing classes. […]

It would be a big shot heard ’round the political world and it’s clear G-O-P candidates are gunning for it. Vivek Ramaswamy is among the 12 presidential candidates appearing with Iowa’s most popular Republican at […]

With classes starting next week for hundreds of thousands of Iowa students, many school districts statewide are facing a common problem — a lack of school bus drivers. In northwest Iowa, Le Mars Community Schools […]

Iowa law says schools cannot start before August 23 and next Wednesday will be the first day of school for more than half a million Iowa students. It will be the first day for new […]

The annual Sergeant Floyd Memorial encampment is this weekend along the banks of the Missouri River in Sioux City. Sergeant Charles Floyd was the only member of the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition to die. […]

An Osage man charged in the death of a Mason City woman has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Twenty-three-year-old Nathan Gilmore was arrested […]

The state unemployment rate held steady at two-point-seven percent for the third straight month in July. Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson Jess Dougherty says the number of people entering the workforce continues to increase. “Went up […]

At least one Iowa school district has turned to using artificial intelligence to try and stay in compliance with a new state law on what constitutes age-appropriate books in school libraries. Bridgette Exman, assistant superintendent […]