State News

Iowa Workforce Development has seen more than 100,000 unemployment claims in the last two weeks, but everyone who has been laid off or lost their job might not have filed. IWD deputy director, Ryan West, […]

State public health officials have drawn up a map that divides the state into six sections. They’re tracking COVID-19 developments in each area. The Iowa Press Citizen obtained the point system being used to determine […]

Eight Iowa State University students were invited back to the closed campus to churn out plastic face shields for health care workers. They’re using 3-D printers in the computation and construction lab that Iowa State […]

March wrapped up being wetter than average across most of Iowa, according to state climatologist Justin Glisan. “Only sections of southwest Iowa were below average for precipitation,” Glisan says. “If we look at the statewide […]

Dozens of Iowa prison inmates are working to expand the state’s stockpiles of personal protective equipment and hand sanitizer. According to the Department of Corrections, about 75 men and women in state prisons are making […]

The Iowa businesses that Governor Kim Reynolds ordered to close last month must remain closed during the month of April. “I am also ordering that school closures are extended through April 30th,” she said this […]

A horse auction is underway today in Wayne County, with a large group of buyers from the Amish community gathering in person for the sale. The Corydon Times-Republican newspaper reports Wayne County Public Health officials […]

Iowa saw a record number of people file for unemployment as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Iowa Workforce Development reports there were 58,435 COVID-19 unemployment claims filed between March 22 and 28th. More than 12,000 of […]

State tax collections dropped nine percent in March. That drop is not due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Legislative Services Agency. It happened because the State of Iowa sent out $70 million more […]

A major eastern Iowa hospital is asking all residents in Iowa’s second-largest city to wear face masks at all times when they’re outside their homes. Doctor Timothy Quinn, chief of clinical operations at Mercy Medical […]

A major eastern Iowa hospital is asking all residents in Iowa’s second-largest city to wear face masks at all times when they’re outside their homes. Doctor Timothy Quinn, chief of clinical operations at Mercy Medical […]

Iowa is among the five states which do not have some sort of a shelter-in-place or stay-at-home order within its borders. The top two Democrats in the legislature are urging Republican Governor Kim Reynolds to […]

A quarterly survey of the state’s largest businesses released today predictably plummeted after months of positive news. Iowa Business Council executive director, Joe Murphy, says their overall economic outlook index fell to 37.5. “At the […]

Iowa women will be able to have “essential” surgical abortions under an agreement between attorneys representing the state and those representing Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa. Governor Kim Reynolds issued an order last […]

Governor Kim Reynolds may issue restrictions related to the COVID-19 outbreak that are local and not statewide. “We are able to look at the metrics based on communities, based on counties, based on regions,” Reynolds […]

Michael Richards of West Des Moines was elected to another term today as president of the board which oversees the three state universities. Richards then talked a little about the issues the Board of Regents […]

Governor Kim Reynolds will soon make clear how the school year may end for Iowa’s K-12 students. Reynolds was asked about the issue during a news conference this afternoon. “This is Wednesday,” Reynolds said in […]

This is Census Day and Iowans are urged to fill out their forms online, by phone or through the mail, with all answers based on where they’re living today, April 1st. Iowa Lieutenant Governor Adam […]

Pranksters may love today’s date, but it’s no April Fool’s joke that the rent is due and many Iowans are out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic. While most evictions in Iowa are being […]

The cities of Cedar Rapids, Des Moines and Iowa City are located in the three counties in Iowa with the most COVID-19 cases, but the county with the fourth highest number of cases has a […]