State News

Iowa junior pitcher Brody Brecht has been named the Big Ten Co-Pitcher of the Week.. The honor is the third Big Ten weekly honor of his career and second for the Hawkeyes this season. Brecht […]

Libraries in Kossuth County are facing nearly $200,000 in budget cuts. Kossuth County Library Association president Lany Mitchell said that cut in county funding means each of the county’s 12 libraries will get about $7000 […]

Teens as young as 14 and a half could get a permit to drive to and from work if a bill headed to the governor becomes law. It would be similar to school permits that […]

A new study by the Iowa Food Bank Association finds more than 27-million pounds of food was “rescued” last year by the six Feeding America food banks that serve Iowa. Annette Hacker, spokeswoman for the […]

Iowa State Fair CEO Jeremy Parsons is preparing for his second event after taking over the top job last year. “You know last year when I came in I really got to take advantage of […]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is announcing plans for a $2.2-million upgrade at a popular park in north-central Iowa. The DNR’s Jacob Schaben says the Brushy Creek State Recreational Area covers 6,500 acres of […]

The investigation into a weekend rollover accident in western Iowa has resulted in a man’s arrest for murder, with more charges pending. Twenty-two-year-old Sebastin O’Brien, of Little Sioux, was arrested for murder in the first-degree […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law that lets school boards choose to have teachers and other staff volunteer to carry a gun on school grounds. Lawmakers who worked on the bill say […]

Long-time Iowa football color analyst Ed Podolak is transitioning out of the Hawkeye football radio booth as color commentator. “I have decided that this is a good time for me to step back from my […]

This morning’s commute was a lot faster for some northeast Iowans. The Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River at Lansing reopened over the weekend, connecting Lansing with Crawford County, Wisconsin. The bridge had to […]