State News

Winnebago Industries celebrated a milestone today that the company says makes it the first in the recreational vehicle industry to reach. Winnebago spokesperson Kelli Harms explains. “We just produced the 500,000th motor home, and we […]

Volunteer registration opens today for this summer’s edition of Iowa Project AWARE, the 19th annual river cleanup event. Coordinator Nina Marquardt says this year’s effort will be on the West Fork of the Des Moines […]

The U.S. Senate has just voted to make next year’s switch to Daylight Saving Time permanent. A bill to end the twice-a-year changing of clocks in Iowa is moving through the state legislature, too. Senator […]

The experts are still studying the series of ten tornadoes that touched down in Iowa on March 5th, claiming seven lives and damaging or destroying dozens of houses. Meteorologist Dennis Todey, director of the U.S.D.A.’s […]

After announcing she was running for governor seven months ago, Democrat Deidre DeJear has now submitted 6600 signatures on nominating petitions, to place her name on Iowa’s June Primary ballot. “We just made history,” DeJear […]

Rural fire departments have been kept busy responding to field fires the past couple of days — especially in northwest Iowa where six of the ten active burn bans are in place. That includes Woodbury […]

A compromise plan to let all-terrain vehicles travel on more county and state highways has cleared the Iowa House. Representative Bobby Kaufmann of Wilton said new safety measures are incorporated in his original plan. “At […]

The Iowa House has passed a bill that would open many of the videos, tapes and other materials in the Iowa PBS archives for public use. Representative Megan Jones of Sioux Rapids said the bill […]

Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.7% in January, which was down from the revised December rate of 3.9%. Iowa Workforce Development says the leisure and hospitality industries added the most jobs in January — up […]

A plan to revamp Iowa’s “Bottle Bill” has cleared its first hurdle in the Iowa Senate and key lawmakers vow this is the year they’ll approve changes in the system for redeeming the nickel deposits […]

State Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald says he supports withdrawing any state investments in Russian companies, but it’s difficult to do today given the status of Russia’s economy. “The ruble has crashed and the stock market in […]

Regional air carrier SkyWest has announced they are planning to pull their commercial service out of Sioux City, Mason City, and Fort Dodge. Assistant city manager Mike Collett oversees the Sioux Gateway Airport and says […]

Democrats are considering a plan that could bump the Iowa Caucuses out of the first-in-the-nation position — and the party will be hosting three forums to give Democrats across the country a chance to weigh […]

A Girl Scout troop in Council Bluffs is turning cookie sales into opportunities for girls who are homeless. The Micah House Homeless Shelter sponsors a troop that’s sold more than 4,000 boxes of cookies so […]

State and federal officials have confirmed another outbreak of bird flu, this time in a commercial flock of egg-laying chickens. According to an announcement from the Iowa Department of Agriculture, the chickens that contracted the […]

It appears the long-running drought in western Iowa will continue running well into 2022 as experts predict below-normal flows for the Missouri River basin this spring and summer. Doug Kluck, the Central Region climate service […]

The Iowa House has passed a bill that would nullify many city and county ordinances that critics say prevent Iowans from having successful home based businesses. Representative Skyler Wheeler of Orange City, a Republican, said […]

Officials say three people are injured after a train hit a semi and derailed in Denison. Tim Zenk, the assistant fire chief for the Denison Fire Department, said the truck carrying weights for a crane […]

Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, a Republican from Marion, says she voted for the infrastructure projects in the government funding bill because it includes money targeted for specific needs in her district. Fellow Republican Congressman Randy […]

Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull is blasting what he describes as “pork barrel” projects in the latest federal budget deal — spending that’s been touted by the three other Iowans serving in the U.S. […]