State News

The Board of Regents has asked the administrators of the University of Iowa, Northern Iowa and Iowa State University to move as quickly as possible towards assessing their ability to hold online classes in the […]

A Guttenburg man faces several charges after the Clayton County Sheriff’s Department says he hit a horse-drawn buggy northeast of Edgewood Sunday. The sheriff’s department says three people were seriously injured when a pickup driven […]

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission renewed the licenses for the 19 state casinos it oversees during their meeting today in Altoona. Racing and Gaming administrator Brian Ohorilko also released the economic impact information on […]

A ceremony on the statehouse steps has erased the final hurdle to a Waterloo barber’s dream. “It’s the man of the hour!” Governor Kim Reynolds said to William Burt. Reynolds then sat down at a […]

Stock markets are tumbling over spiraling gasoline prices and mounting cases of coronavirus, so Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says Washington leaders are considering several ways to steady the economy. In addition to last week’s cut […]

State records still show eight Iowans have had a presumptive positive test for the novel coronavirus, but Governor Kim Reynolds has revealed more details about two cruises involving a few dozen Iowans — including the […]

The Iowa House has voted to establish a limit on the co-payment insurance companies require to fill a prescription for insulin. Representative Ann Meyer, a registered nurse from Fort Dodge, says it’s a $100 cap. […]

Officials have confirmed a presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus in a woman who works at a Council Bluffs restaurant — plus four more suspected cases in Johnson County, where three were identified on Sunday. […]

The University of Northern Iowa is remembering a group of former students in an event tonight on the Cedar Falls campus. This marks the 50th anniversary of a peaceful protest. In 1970, the Iowa Board […]

A southwest Iowa man is sentenced for illegally transporting deer across state lines. Forty-six-year-old Aaron Volkmar of Bedford was given two years probation, a fine of $5,000, and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution for […]

It appears a Senate-passed plan establishing some restrictions if Iowa voters decide to automatically restore felon voting rights is on the fast track in the Iowa House. The bill is ready for debate in a […]

Many Iowans will get cards from the U.S. Census Bureau in their mailboxes this week, urging them to take part in this year’s population count. The results will be used to redraw political boundaries and […]

The family of an Eastern Iowa girl who lost her sight because of the flu says she has recovered her sight and they are still working through all that happened in the past couple of […]

Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst is criticizing the Senate’s Democratic leader for comments he made at a rally outside the Supreme Court. Last week, Senator Chuck Schumer told protesters the two justices President Trump has […]

A ten-year study documents the conservation benefits of cover crops on farm fields and shows they’re a long-term tool for soil health. Growers were asked to plant strips of cereal rye as a cover crop […]

Coronavirus cases worldwide now exceed 100,000 with more than a dozen U.S. deaths, but health officials in northwest Iowa say there’s a fine line between being prepared for an outbreak and overreacting. Tyler Brock, deputy […]

State officials have announced the first three presumptive positive cases of Covid-19 — the novel coronavirus — in Iowa. According to a news release from the governor’s office, all three are from Johnson County and […]

Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers say the big upstream reservoirs on the Missouri River are ready for spring snowmelt — and possible flooding. Corps engineer Mike Swenson, in the Omaha office, says […]

The Iowa House has passed a small batch of bills about broadband service in the state. Representative Ray Sorenson of Greenfield said during House debate that the GOP lawmakers and staff who’ve been working on […]

Republican Congressman Steve King says he’s disappointed in the sentence for a Colorado man who admitted he threw a glass of water on King last year. Twenty-seven-year-old Blake Gibbins was sentenced to two years of […]