State officials may now offer far larger tax incentives for up to two businesses that plan to spend at least $1 billion on a new facility. Yesterday, Governor Kim Reynolds approved up to $93 million […]

State Climatologist Justin Glisan  says April brought the showers the state needs. “We’re actually about eight-tenths of an inch above average and particularly wet across southeastern Iowa and northwestern Iowa, where we’ve seen drought removal […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has approved the plan that will shrink Iowa’s individual income tax to a single rate of 3.8% next year. Lawmakers say it will amount to a billion dollar cut in state income […]

Veterans from across Iowa are in Washington ,D.C. today as part of the 50th Eastern Iowa Honor Flight. The trip honors 99-year-old World War Two Veteran Mike Wilson. Wilson tells KCRG TV that he and […]

A healthcare company that’s familiar in northeast Iowa is changing its name. Gundersen Health Systems has merged with Bellin Health. Both are based in Wisconsin. The company will now be known as Emplify Health, although […]

Governor Reynolds has signed two insurance-related bills into law this morning. One requires that insurance plans cover diagnostic tests like MRIs that are used to detect breast cancer. Forty-nine-year-old Kimberly Pearson of Oskaloosa, a breast […]

The Big Ten Conference announced the single and double play opponents for each of the 18 teams for the 2024-25 season. Among the 20-game conference slate, the Iowa Hawkeyes will play 14 opponents once (seven […]

A spokesman for Governor Reynolds says about 10 percent of state government job classifications require a bachelor’s degree. Kollin Crompton, the governor’s spokesman, is responding to State Auditor Rob Sand’s announcement that he’d collaborated with […]

The Iowa Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, or CAP, is in the air and surveying storm damage from the April 26th tornadoes that struck western and central Iowa. Colonel Jonathan Lartigue, the wing’s commander, […]

State Auditor Rob Sand says he’s worked with a non-profit group and identified more than two dozen state job classifications that could be rewritten to widen the pool of applicants. Sand, a Democrat, says Opportunity […]