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State officials say they have begun issuing the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Congress approved in late December. Iowa Workforce Development deputy director Ryan West says the agency began processing this latest round of expanded unemployment […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has canceled the contract for Microsoft to build a website for Iowans to schedule a Covid shot. “It quickly became apparent that integrating the many already existing administration and scheduling platforms that […]

The victim of a fatal stabbing at the Prestage Foods plant in Eagle Grove Tuesday has been identified as 50-year-old Wayne Smith of Fort Dodge. Deputies found Smith stabbed to death inside the lockerroom of […]

Legislators are considering how many bathrooms should be required in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Current law requires establishments that serve beer, wine and liquor to have a men’s and a women’s bathroom. A […]

Two Republicans in the Iowa Senate have agreed to advance a bill that would prohibit Iowa businesses and health care facilities from requiring that employees get vaccinations. A 97-minute-long subcommittee hearing on the bill was […]

A fifth person associated with the City of Armstrong has been arrested in connection with a long-term investigation of alleged misconduct. Former City Clerk Mary “Kate” Staton was charged Monday with one count each of […]

State officials say they’re monitoring natural gas supplies and the power grid in Iowa as severe weather strains utilities from the Great Plains to the Gulf of Mexico. Governor Kim Reynolds met with the Iowa […]

Governor Kim Reynolds says she’s encouraging legislators to approve her agenda and she doesn’t plan to weigh in on other issues legislators are considering. That includes a bid to end tenure for professors at the […]

The Wright County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man after being called to the Prestage Foods plant in Eagle Grove around 5:42 this morning and finding an employee stabbed to death inside the locker room. […]

Public health officials in five Iowa counties notified that they would not get more Covid-19 vaccine doses this week because they were lagging in dispensing it, will get their doses this week. Governor Kim Reynolds […]

Weather maps show 73% of the country has snow cover and Iowans are well aware of how the prolonged subzero temperatures are causing trouble, especially with home heating demands. Iowa’s largest utility is asking residents […]

An eastern Iowa woman will spend 30 years in federal prison on child pornography charges. Thirty-seven-year-old Gina Christa Urbain of Dubuque pleaded guilty in August to sexually exploiting children and possessing child pornography. Urbain admitted […]

There was nothing sweet about the weather on Valentine’s Day as the brutal cold continued its grip on the state. State Climatologist Justin Glisan says many areas saw records. “Over 50 stations broke their daily […]

Iowa junior Joe Wieskamp has been named the Big Ten Player of the Week, it was announced Monday by the Big Ten Conference Office. Wieskamp (6-foot-6, 212 pounds) averaged 23.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, two assists, […]

A new computer system would periodically check if Iowans are eligible for food stamp benefits if a bill that’s cleared a senate subcommittee becomes law. Republican Senator Jason Schultz of Schleswig proposes that the Iowa […]

There are still a lot of questions about the COVID-19 vaccine — including whether someone who has had it and recovered needs to get vaccinated. Siouxland District Health’s Tyler Brock answers the question this way. […]

Republican State Senator James Carlin of Sioux City delivered a speech this morning to kick off his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat Republican Chuck Grassley holds. Carlin, who did not mention Grassley’s name, said […]

Iowa lawmakers are reviewing their options after U.S. Census officials confirm the population data for redrawing congressional and legislative districts won’t be delivered until this fall. Every ten years, the contours of congressional and legislative […]

An autopsy is scheduled for today in Iowa City’s first homicide in nearly a year. Police were called to Iowa City’s Longfellow neighborhood about 8 o’clock on Friday night to investigate a report of shots […]

Many Iowans have seen their income impacted by COVID-19 in the past year and it’s raising fears at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources that the state’s Chickadee Checkoff could see a drop in donations […]