State News

The Iowa Court of Appeals has denied the appeal of a West Des Moines woman convicted of starving her adopted daughter to death. Nicole Finn appealed her conviction for first-degree murder in the death of […]

Confirmation hearings will begin Monday for President Trump’s choice to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and both of Iowa’s U.S. senators are serving on the Judiciary Committee. Senator Chuck Grassley was chairman […]

The state’s coronavirus website shows 444 patients were being treated for Covid-19 in an Iowa hospital on Tuesday, a one-day record number for the state. Governor Kim Reynolds indicates hospitals in northwest Iowa are seeing […]

The latest survey by a group representing 22 of the largest businesses in the state finds a big jump in optimism for the third quarter of this year. Iowa Business Council executive director Joe Murphy […]

An official from the U.S. Department of Education says Iowa school districts are “a model” for districts in the rest of the country that have not reopened. Frank Brogan, the Assistant U.S. Secretary for elementary […]

The number of complaints from Iowa farmers about a powerful herbicide floating from one field to another and causing damage has reached record levels this year. Agronomists across the state report 329 pesticide misuse complaints […]

One of the county auditors who distributed partially-filled-out forms for requesting absentee ballots says at least 75 percent of the voters in Woodbury County who mailed back those requests have submitted a second form that […]

The Iowa Supreme Court has issued what’s called a “stay” — so a district court judge’s recent ruling on absentee ballot request forms sent to voters in Woodbury, Linn and Johnson Counties is unlikely to […]

A Boston man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after an Iowa-based company raised suspicions about a life insurance policy. The investigation began nearly two years ago after a man who sometimes went […]

The ACLU of Iowa has filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of five Black Lives Matter activists who were banned from the Iowa state capitol grounds after violence broke out there between state […]

Republicans may appeal a judge’s ruling that has cast more confusion on absentee ballot request forms sent to voters in Woodbury, Linn and Johnson Counties. A district court judge has issued a temporarily ruling that […]

An advisory board Governor Reynolds assembled in mid-June is making 56 recommendations for jump-starting Iowa’s economic recovery from the pandemic. The board’s top recommendation is for the state to take steps to make child care […]

The Waterloo City Council voted last night to take steps toward changing the city police department’s decades-old logo of a red griffin, after critics pointed out its similarity to a white supremacist image. Abraham Funchess, […]

More details are being released about a deadly house explosion in north-central Iowa over the weekend. Franklin County authorities say they were called to the 500 block of 250th Street southeast of Meservey shortly after […]

A new word is being used to describe the dangerous practice of texting while driving, comparing it to being drunk behind the wheel. Mark Peterson, a spokesman for AAA-Iowa, says “intexticated” refers to the driver […]

Farmers across western Iowa who planned to move their commodities by barge along the Missouri River this fall could be facing a slowdown. Colonel Bill Hannan, the Kansas City district commander for the U.S. Army […]

Iowa farmers continue to benefit from good weather as they bring in the crops. The U.S.D.A. weekly report shows one-quarter of the Iowa corn crop has been harvested — which is more than three weeks […]

Democratic Congresswoman Cindy Axne and former Republican Congressman David Young dissected one another’s voting records during a debate broadcast Monday night on Iowa PBS. The two are running in Iowa’s third district congressional district, which […]

The State Board of Regents voted today to approve the retirement of University of Iowa president Bruce Harreld once a successor can be found. The board also voted to hire a consulting firm and set […]

The dry conditions in parts of Iowa this year have been a mixed blessing for wineries. Iowa Wine Growers Association, marketing director, Nicole Eilers says the drought has led to some loss in production, but […]