State News

As summer starts to conclude, monarch butterflies are beginning to migrate through Iowa, headed for Mexico. Over the past 20 years, the population of monarchs has been in steep decline. A new report concludes the […]

Members of the Loras College community in Dubuque received a surprising email Tuesday morning announcing the university announced would be taking down a statue honoring its founder Bishop Mathias Loras. The email said a researcher […]

Spencer’s police chief is urging motorists to be alert at intersections after a bicyclist was hit and seriously injured earlier this week while attempting to cross a four-lane street in Spencer. The warning from Spencer […]

William Penn football coach Todd Hafner says there will be a sense of relief when the teams line up for the opening kickoff on Saturday night. In a year where much of small college football […]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has created a new free online database for sharing venison. Iowa DNR Wildlife Bureau chief Todd Bishop says the deer exchange helps everyone share in the resource. “We have […]

The state is looking for another company to produce medical marijuana products. The manager of the program, Owen Parker, says state law allows for two licenses to produce medical marijuana products. “Iowa Relief was our […]

With Labor Day behind us, the summer season is winding down in the Iowa Great Lakes region. Some big summer events were canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, including an art festival and […]

At least 15 of the Pizza Hut restaurants in Iowa have been closed, following the announcement in July that up to 300 locations around the country would be closing. The company that owns 20 percent […]

A 77-year-old state prison inmate has died of complications related to Covid-19. Richard Leroy Peters of Evansdale had been in prison since early 2014. He’d been committed on a special lifetime sentence after being found […]

You’ll need a jacket if you go out anywhere across the state today to protect yourself from the cool temperatures and in some cases rain. National Weather Service Meteorologist Jim Lee says a massive storm […]

A judge is denying temporary intervention in the legal dispute between Des Moines Public Schools and the State of Iowa. The Des Moines School Board’s lawsuit challenging the governor’s authority to force districts to have […]

Special elections are being held in nine Iowa counties today. In Humboldt County, voters will decide whether to continue a one-cent local option sales tax. The revenue is used by local governments in the county. […]

A report from the State Ombudsman says the death of Perry 16-year-old in May of 2017 might have been prevented if workers and contractors for the Iowa Department of Human Services had been more diligent […]

Sioux City’s Warrior Hotel is open again for the first time in 40 years. The historic downtown building at 6th and Nebraska Streets hosted private events with guests staying at the newly refurbished hotel. Developers […]

K-12 students in an eastern Iowa district that took a huge hit from last month’s derecho are starting school in-person today. The Benton Community School District serves eight rural communities in Benton, Tama and Iowa […]

An Iowa native who’s in her 20th year as a DNR conservation officer is releasing her first book, a series of essays about her unusual experiences in a career defending what’s left of Iowa’s natural […]

The two major party candidates running in Iowa’s first congressional district disagreed over changes in the Postal Service, union bargaining rights and the federal minimum wage during tonight’s Labor Day debate on Iowa PBS. “You […]

Thursday marks one month since the derecho tore across Iowa and left thousands of downed trees in its wake. Cedar Rapids City Engineer, Nate Kampman, says they have made progress in picking up tree piles […]

Iowans rank low in one category and high in another in a study of how well we’re staying socially distanced during the pandemic. The report analyzed publicly-available cell phone location data to determine the frequency […]

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