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A new report finds a much higher percentage of people are dying from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia during this year’s pandemic than during the past several years. The figures are “alarming,” according to Robyn Mills, […]

Kids have been standing with their parents in early voting lines and will be seen at many precincts today, as parents teach, by example, about the importance of voting. Kim Sleezer, a middle school teacher […]

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate says one of his main concerns on this Election Day is “misinformation or disinformation” online. “I encourage Iowans to not believe everything they read on social media,” Pate says. […]

Time will tell, as they say, as Election Day dawns and Iowans have a total of 14 more hours to cast their votes. There were campaign rallies and there were parades. And, over the past […]

More than 90 percent of eligible Iowans have registered to vote in this year’s election. Out of the nearly 2.1 million active voters in the state, Republicans outnumber Democrats by about 20,000. Iowa Republican Party […]

Iowans don’t usually see a half-foot of snowfall during October but that’s just one more thing we can chalk up for this bizarre 2020. State climatologist Justin Glisan says the month ended up being one […]

After falling to unprecedented lows at the peak of the pandemic earlier this year, a survey finds the economies in Iowa and the Midwest are making remarkable comebacks. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the […]

More than 90 percent of eligible Iowans are registered to vote — and the Secretary of State reports there are a record number of nearly 2.1 million active voters in the state. The monthly report […]

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting meetings this (Monday) afternoon and evening to discuss managing the Missouri River and the federal reservoirs that feed into it. John Remus, chief of the Missouri River […]

Des Moines police now say the young woman who’s charged in a fatal weekend shooting is the daughter of the victim. Police say 45-year-old Marcellas McNeil was shot to death early Sunday in a business […]

A high-speed pursuit led to a deadly crash in eastern Iowa on Sunday afternoon. The state patrol says a trooper tried to pull a car over for a traffic stop on Interstate 80 eastbound near […]

An actor from the movie “Field of Dreams” is buying a historic building in the northeast Iowa town where the 1989 film was shot. Dwier Brown, who played John Kinsela — the father of Kevin […]

The Iowa District office of the U.S. Small Business Administration is wrapping up its busiest-ever fiscal year of providing traditional and emergency loans to thousands of Iowa businesses. The SBA’s state director Jayne Armstrong says […]

The countdown clock for the 2020 election has shifted from days to hours. President Trump spoke in Dubuque Sunday afternoon. “What a crowd,” Trump said, to cheers as he took the stage. “We had a […]

At a windy outdoor campaign rally in Dubuque Sunday afternoon, President Trump promised what he described as a “super boom” in the U.S. economy if he’s reelected. “Our country has such unbelievable potential, let’s not […]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was in Des Moines earlier this afternoon to deliver his closing pitch to Iowans at a drive-in rally on the state fairgrounds. “It’s time for us to stand up, take […]

The latest predictions show a La Nina weather system has developed in the Pacific Ocean and it’s expected to linger into spring — which may bring Iowa a colder winter and could influence the state’s […]

Incumbent Republican Joni Ernst has been campaigning in northwest Iowa today as part of her final push to win a second term in the U.S. Senate. During a stop in Sioux City, Ernst criticized her […]

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is now rescheduling non-emergency surgeries and procedures as needed. The move started today  and was made as the state continues to see record-breaking numbers of COVID-19-related hospitalizations. UIHC […]

Just over 885,000 Iowans have already voted in Iowa. That’s about 56 percent of the total turnout in Iowa for the last presidential election in 2016, so Iowa has  set a record for early voting. […]