State News

Iowa has won a $3.7 million federal grant to expand mental health services in the wake of last month’s derecho. The funds will extend an effort already in place to help Iowans cope with the […]

A state agency has notified Iowa nursing homes that the State Hygienic Lab doesn’t have the capacity to process all the Covid tests identified in new federal guidelines. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid now […]

The latest coronavirus data on the state’s website appears to show increasing spread of the virus in the northwest corner of the state. The 14-day Covid positivity rate in Sioux County was 28.2% at 10 […]

The Iowa Department of Transportation is now offering the 90th version of a new license plate. DOT license plate administrator, Paul Cornelius, says the “Fly Our Colors” plate features the colors of the Iowa and […]

Dozens of summer and fall activities have already been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the decision on what to do about kids trick-or-treating is still up in the air. The Cascade City Council […]

Hundreds of bars, taverns, nightclubs and breweries in four Iowa counties reopened last night after being closed for nearly three weeks. The bar closures and reopenings in Black Hawk, Dallas, Linn and Polk Counties are […]

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department is asking for help with information after a body was found in rural Kellogg. Dispatchers got a call around 5:30 Wednesday about a fire in a roadside ditch along North […]

Republican Governor Kim Reynolds is defending her decision to use federal cornavirus relief money to cover the salaries of 21 members of her staff. “CARES (Act) money can be used for salaries,” Reynolds said during […]

A Corning farmer testified before Congress today that a Trump Administration rule that changes the definition of federally protected waterways offers clarity for the nation’s farmers. Ray Gaesser farms corn and soybeans with his son […]

Northwest Iowa’s Sioux County continues to have the highest coronavirus positivity rate in Iowa. At 5 p.m. today, the state’s online dashboard indicated Sioux County’s Covid postivity rate was 27%. Community Health Partners is the […]