State News

The weather experts say La Nina is gone. The weather pattern resulting from the cooling of the Pacific Ocean’s surface has an impact on the weather across North America, and it’s now completely faded away. […]

Buena Vista University has opened a 2,500 square foot building in downtown Storm Lake that’s being described as an “idea incubator.” It’s called “The Foundry” and BVU president Brian Lenzmeier says the space is for […]

The president of the board that oversees the three state universities says they are looking forward to resuming regular operations this fall. Mike Richards has already lifted the emergency order that went into place on […]

A Nebraska man was killed Wednesday when his motorcycle collided with a semi in western Iowa. The crash happened in Monona County on Highway 183 a little after 2 p.m. According to the Iowa State […]

Iowa Republican Party chairman Jeff Kaufmann says he and the GOP leaders of New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada are “wholeheartedly united” behind maintaining the same sequence for presidential caucuses and primaries in 2024 that […]

Lawmakers in the state of Nevada have passed a bill they hope puts a Nevada Primary ahead of Iowa’s Caucuses in 2024. If Nevada’s governor signs the bill into law, it sets up a political […]

Northwest Iowa authorities are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another wounded outside a rural residence near Luton today. Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan says first responders were dispatched to the scene […]

University of Iowa researchers are sending out surveys to randomly-selected Latino households in nine Iowa counties with significant Latino populations to gauge the long-term impact of COVID-19 on that segment of the population. Miriam Velez-Bermudez […]

A judge has ordered a change in location for the first-degree murder trial of a Fort Dodge man accused of killing his estranged wife. Forty-four-year-old Justin Christopher Hurdel will now stand trial in Boone County. […]

Wreaths have been laid at two war memorials on the Iowa State Capitol grounds today. Captain Lucas Murphy, the Iowa National Guard’s chaplain, opened a ceremony at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery at 8 o’clock this […]