State News

The manager of the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge in western Iowa reports not as many birds flew through the area this past migration season. Desoto manager Tom Cox says the drought, left the refuge without […]

Iowa’s unemployment rate dropped slightly in December after four months of slight increases. Iowa Workforce Development director, Beth Townsend, says the rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 3.2% in December. “It’s a small change. […]

Five Iowa mayors are joining more than 250 of their counterparts from across the country for the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington D.C. Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart, who’s just started […]

Officials with the Iowa Donor Network are releasing numbers for 2023 to celebrate the extraordinary impact of organ and tissue donation. Network spokeswoman Heather Butterfield says during the past year, 123 “donor heroes” in Iowa […]

Senator Chuck Grassley has been discharged from a hospital in the Washington, D.C. area where he was being treated for an infection. On Tuesday, Grassley’s U.S. Senate office announced Grassley was receiving antibiotic infusions as […]

Many Iowa businesses are still struggling to recover from last week’s double-whammy of monster snowstorms, including LifeServe Blood Center. Center spokeswoman Shay Willis says the heavy snowfalls caused the center several setbacks, which impacted perhaps […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has scaled back her proposal to overhaul Iowa’s Area Education Agencies. Last week, Reynolds released a plan to focus AEAs solely on special education for children with disabilities. In a news release, […]

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Department and other first responders helped a woman give birth during last week’s blizzard. Deputy Joseph McMillen says he was concerned after getting the call because he had gotten stuck in […]

The Iowa House has passed a resolution supporting Israel’s “right to act decisively….to pursue the elimination of Hamas” after the terror attack on October 7. The resolution expressed sympathy and support for the families of […]

The spokesman for the state’s largest utility company says the heavy winds that accompanied the storms last week helped create an electric generation record. MidAmerican spokesman Geoff Greenwood, says the company’s turbines did a lot […]