State News

Rural fire departments have been kept busy responding to field fires the past couple of days — especially in northwest Iowa where six of the ten active burn bans are in place. That includes Woodbury […]

A compromise plan to let all-terrain vehicles travel on more county and state highways has cleared the Iowa House. Representative Bobby Kaufmann of Wilton said new safety measures are incorporated in his original plan. “At […]

The Iowa House has passed a bill that would open many of the videos, tapes and other materials in the Iowa PBS archives for public use. Representative Megan Jones of Sioux Rapids said the bill […]

A plan to revamp Iowa’s “Bottle Bill” has cleared its first hurdle in the Iowa Senate and key lawmakers vow this is the year they’ll approve changes in the system for redeeming the nickel deposits […]

Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.7% in January, which was down from the revised December rate of 3.9%. Iowa Workforce Development says the leisure and hospitality industries added the most jobs in January — up […]

State Treasurer Mike Fitzgerald says he supports withdrawing any state investments in Russian companies, but it’s difficult to do today given the status of Russia’s economy. “The ruble has crashed and the stock market in […]

Regional air carrier SkyWest has announced they are planning to pull their commercial service out of Sioux City, Mason City, and Fort Dodge. Assistant city manager Mike Collett oversees the Sioux Gateway Airport and says […]

Democrats are considering a plan that could bump the Iowa Caucuses out of the first-in-the-nation position — and the party will be hosting three forums to give Democrats across the country a chance to weigh […]

A Girl Scout troop in Council Bluffs is turning cookie sales into opportunities for girls who are homeless. The Micah House Homeless Shelter sponsors a troop that’s sold more than 4,000 boxes of cookies so […]

State and federal officials have confirmed another outbreak of bird flu, this time in a commercial flock of egg-laying chickens. According to an announcement from the Iowa Department of Agriculture, the chickens that contracted the […]