Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says election year politics doomed passage of the Farm Bill in September. Hinson, a Republican from Marion, says the U.S. House should vote on its version of the bill when congress […]

About 100 workers at the Cargill plant in Cedar Rapids are on strike. The Teamsters contract for workers at the corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids expired at midnight Monday. The union sought a $3 […]

Iowans will hear some new terminology when the winds of winter start to blow. National Weather Service meteorologist Chad Hahn says the agency is abandoning a few familiar terms in favor of language that’s a […]

State climatologist Justin Glisan confirms September is at the top of the record list after recording just seven-tenths of an inch of precipitation. “If you look at the average that we expect — about three-and-a-half […]

A foundation based in Council Bluffs is creating a 165 MILLION dollar investment fund for more than four dozen southwest Iowa communities. Steve Wild of Missouri Valley, president of the Charles E. Lakin Foundation’s board […]

The deadline is later this month for grocery stores and small food processors in rural Iowa to apply for large state grants to help make themselves more marketable to consumers. Cynthia Farmer, senior policy associate […]

The Iowa Department of  Transportation has released its review of speed cameras under new rules created by the state legislature.  Cities and counties had to apply to the DOT and show the camera is placed […]

An Iowan who became a reality TV star on the hit show “American Pickers” has died. Fifty-eight-year-old Frank Fritz, a Davenport native, died last night according to the administrator of a public Facebook page called […]

Creighton University economics professor Ernie Goss says the Midwestern agricultural sector is now in a “significant recession,” and the region’s economic picture is lagging. Creighton’s monthly survey of business leaders and supply managers in Iowa […]

The leaders of both of Iowa’s major political parties say tonight’s debate between vice presidential candidates J-D Vance and Tim Walz is an important milestone in the 2024 campaign. Iowa Democratic Party chairwoman Rita Hart […]

Rainfall in the spring and early summer briefly relieved drought in the Corn Belt but it also contributed to elevated nitrate concentrations in many of the region’s waterways. During dry years, nitrates from soil microbes […]

A report shows Iowa made significant strides in advancing renewable energy over the last two decades with wind and solar rising to 64-percent of Iowa’s electricity generation last year. Steve Guyer, the main author of […]