State News

Republican Congresswoman Ashley Hinson of Marion has been hospitalized for treatment of a kidney infection. Jimmy Peacock, Hinson’s chief of staff released a statement this morning, announcing Hinson was admitted to a Cedar Rapids hospital […]

Democratic Congresswoman Cindy Axne says her Republican opponent and the GOP leader in the U.S. House are trying to avoid revealing their plans to pass abortion restrictions. Last week, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and […]

A Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll released this weekend shows Republican Senator Chuck Grassley with a three percent lead over Democratic challenger Mike Franken. The poll of likely voters was taken from October 9-12t. Forty-six […]

Three men caught with large amounts of meth and fentanyl in the Waterloo area have been sentenced to lengthy federal prison terms. Court records indicate 43-year-old Levi Dull of Cedar Falls sold illegal drugs to […]

Democratic Congresswoman Cindy Axne of West Des Moines says former President Trump “absolutely needs to speak: with the House panel investigating what happened on January 6th of 2021. “I think we’ve seen from the January […]

University of Iowa president Barbara Wilson says the student athletes on the Hawkeye football team “want to win just as much as everybody else: and she’s asking fans to find a way to be supportive. […]

DNR Conservation and Recreation Division Administrator, Pete Hildreth, gave the Natural Resources Commission an update on recent mountain lion sightings during their meeting Thursday. He told the NRC members the advent of trail and other […]

The Iowa Supreme Court hear oral arguments Thursday in a case where a woman sued the state for negligence after a multi-state fugitive being chased by a State Trooper ran into her car in central […]

A man who authorities say is a member of a Waterloo gang has been sentenced to over three years in federal prison on a gun charge. Sir Frank Nelson III of Waterloo, who is 27, […]

The Iowa Drought Monitor now rates the entire state as either abnormally dry or in some level of drought. At this time last year, three-fourths of the state was abnormally dry. Dennis Todey, director of […]

A state panel is predicting state tax collections for this budgeting year will fall 2.7% below the last one. Iowa Department of Revenue director Kraig Paulsen said tax cuts for retirees, corporations and individuals in […]

A proposed merger between the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroad companies has people in and around Dubuque concerned about potential impacts. Janice Henwood has lived in the neighborhood near Massey Park for decades […]

A World War Two veteran who was a charter member of the Iowa Air National Guard and former commander of the 185th Air Wing has died at age 97. Colonel Warren “Bud” Nelson served in […]

Officials in a northwest Iowa city have adopted changes to an ordinance that now gives the city authority to essentially evict a vicious animal. Okoboji Police Chief Jason Peterson says under the old ordinance, his […]

Dallas County officials have filed charges in what could be the first case pursued under a new law with tougher penalties for the financial exploitation of an older Iowan. Sixty-eight-year-old Alan Steven Kessler of West […]

A parcel of farmland in Plymouth County has set the record for the most money paid per acre in Iowa. Auctioneer Bruce Brock of Brock Auction Company sold the ground Monday. “We auctioned off 55 […]

AAA Iowa  is reporting gasoline prices in the state are about 30 cents a gallon higher than a month ago. “The reason we’re seeing this is while crude oil is still hovering around roughly the […]

U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was on the Iowa campaign trail yesterday with Zach Nunn, the G-O-P candidate in Iowa’s third congressional district. “I encouraged him to run two years ago. At the time, […]

The candidates in Iowa’s new second congressional district revived their strong disagreements over abortion policy during a joint TV appearance tonight. Ashley Hinson, a Republican from Marion, is seeking a second term in the U.S. […]

Two men from Florida who were wanted on multiple warrants from Iowa and elsewhere were arrested this morning after a chase in western Iowa that ended with them crashing. Iowa State Patrol Trooper Ryan Devault […]