An Ankeny establishment is the winner of this year’s “Best Burger contest. J J’s Bar and Grill co-owner Mike Roberts says he changed the name and added burgers to the menu when he took over […]

A major road upgrade in the Iowa Great Lakes region is ahead of schedule. Iowa DOT engineer Darwin Bishop says the goal is for out-of-town motorists on Highway 71 to think everything looks normal during […]

The Governor is requesting an expedited Presidential Disaster Declaration for nine Iowa counties hit by the severe storms and tornadoes on April 26th. The governor is asking for funding from FEMA’s Individual Assistance Program and […]

Opponents of Iowa’s new immigration enforcement law held protests in four Iowa cities last night. Enya Cid. a student at Grandview University who was born in Mexico, spoke at a rally outside the Iowa Capitol. “Politicians […]

The annual Pella Tulip Festival gets underway today as the community celebrates its Dutch heritage. Pella Historical Museum executive director, Jessi Galligan says they’ve survived the recent warmer and wetter. “It’s been wonderful weather mixed […]

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 […]

As driverless cars become more popular on our roads, researchers at the University of Iowa are studying ways to make those cars transmit simple messages to pedestrians that it’s safe to cross in front of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

National Walk, Bike, and Roll to School Day is one week from today on May 8th and organizers in Iowa say this year’s event promises to be the biggest yet. Matt Burkey, the Iowa Safe […]

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 […]