State News

A Manchester man is running across Iowa in honor of two fallen co-workers. Ryan Miller works as a correctional officer at the Anamosa State Penitentiary, where another officer and a nurse were killed during an […]

The Iowa Board of Corrections has approved the hiring of two new prison wardens, including one at the Anamosa State Penitentiary where two staffers were killed in March. Incoming Anamosa warden Kristofer Karberg most recently […]

The Iowa State Patrol says a pheasant caused a fatal accident in Greene County. The Patrol accident report says 30-year-old Theodore McGinnis of Des Moines was driving on a county road near Jefferson when evidence […]

Volunteer Iowa is now taking nominations for the 2021 Iowa Volunteer Hall of Fame Awards. Organization spokesperson Rebecca Gernes says they are looking for people who have made a difference in the state. “We want […]

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will increase rates for its services by 6% in the coming budget year. The Board of Regents approved the new rates Thursday. UIHC officials say the increase is […]

The weather experts say La Nina is gone. The weather pattern resulting from the cooling of the Pacific Ocean’s surface has an impact on the weather across North America, and it’s now completely faded away. […]

Buena Vista University has opened a 2,500 square foot building in downtown Storm Lake that’s being described as an “idea incubator.” It’s called “The Foundry” and BVU president Brian Lenzmeier says the space is for […]

The president of the board that oversees the three state universities says they are looking forward to resuming regular operations this fall. Mike Richards has already lifted the emergency order that went into place on […]

A Nebraska man was killed Wednesday when his motorcycle collided with a semi in western Iowa. The crash happened in Monona County on Highway 183 a little after 2 p.m. According to the Iowa State […]

Iowa Republican Party chairman Jeff Kaufmann says he and the GOP leaders of New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada are “wholeheartedly united” behind maintaining the same sequence for presidential caucuses and primaries in 2024 that […]

Northwest Iowa authorities are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another wounded outside a rural residence near Luton today. Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan says first responders were dispatched to the scene […]

Lawmakers in the state of Nevada have passed a bill they hope puts a Nevada Primary ahead of Iowa’s Caucuses in 2024. If Nevada’s governor signs the bill into law, it sets up a political […]

University of Iowa researchers are sending out surveys to randomly-selected Latino households in nine Iowa counties with significant Latino populations to gauge the long-term impact of COVID-19 on that segment of the population. Miriam Velez-Bermudez […]

A judge has ordered a change in location for the first-degree murder trial of a Fort Dodge man accused of killing his estranged wife. Forty-four-year-old Justin Christopher Hurdel will now stand trial in Boone County. […]

Wreaths have been laid at two war memorials on the Iowa State Capitol grounds today. Captain Lucas Murphy, the Iowa National Guard’s chaplain, opened a ceremony at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery at 8 o’clock this […]

Former Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, the Democrat who lost her bid for a second term in the U.S. House last year, is reportedly considering a run for the U.S. Senate. Finkenauer lost her 2020 race […]

A report on local health finds nearly one in five Iowa households do not have broadband access. The report, from the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute, uses more than 30 measures like adult obesity […]

Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says she is glad to see the administration call for an investigation into the origin of the COVID-19 virus. “I am excited to hear that we are moving forward to hear […]

The Iowa DNR is investigating a northeast Iowa fish kill near West Union. The DNR says it got a report of dead brown trout below a stormwater drain that flows into Otter Creek and found […]

A jury in Davenport has started deliberations on the case against the man accused of murdering 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts nearly three years ago as she was jogging in her hometown. Yesterday, Cristhian Bahena Rivera testified […]