A Dubuque County landmark will get a significant overhaul this year as the rebuilding of the Centennial Cross is scheduled to start soon. Also known as the Blue Cross, it’s located in the town of […]

Governor Kim Reynolds didn’t share any clues about her tax and spending plans as she hosted an online hearing about the state budget this afternoon, but groups that have lobbied for tax cuts in the […]

Iowans who bought electric vehicles last week may have qualified for a $7,500 federal tax credit, but that credit evaporated when 2024 arrived. The Inflation Reduction Act aims to shift battery production from China and […]

An emergency manager in northwest Iowa is urging state lawmakers to provide incentives for first responders. Woodbury County Emergency Services Director Scott Mitchell says many small towns and cities across the state struggle with finding […]

Iowa’s top election official is proposing uniform rules for election recounts and is asking legislators to beef up his training budget for election workers. Secretary of State Paul Pate said Iowa is one of the […]

The final tallies are in, and state climatologist Justin Glisan says 2023 is going down as one of Iowa’s warmest and driest years in more than 150 years of record keeping. Glisan says when you […]

Former Iowa Congressman Steve King has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. King and Ramaswamy are outspoken critics of giving Summit Carbon Solutions eminent domain authority to force unwilling landowners to let the carbon pipeline […]

Iowans who’ve resolved to lose weight in the new year might need a little help in reaching their goals. Rebecca Cripe, a registered dietician and nutritionist with Gundersen Health System, says it’s not an easy […]

House Democratic Leader Jennifer Konfrst says the 2024 Iowa legislature should focus on improving access to child care and affordable housing rather than another round of tax cuts. “What does an Iowa family of four […]

Iowa is facing a shortage of attorneys, and prosecutors in one northwest Iowa county are working harder to keep up. Woodbury County Attorney James Loomis says his office needs five more attorneys to be at […]

A man was found dead following a fire at a rural Dallas County home Monday. The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department reports getting a call about the fire in rural Dallas Center at 9:42 p.m. Sunday. […]

Wide areas of central and southern Iowa have had very little snowfall in recent months, not that many of us are complaining. The Des Moines International Airport reported just two-tenths of an inch of snow […]

Republican leaders in the Iowa House and Senate say it’s likely lawmakers will move up the date the Iowa personal income tax drops to just one flat rate, but there’s no agreement on the governor’s […]

An eastern Iowa program works to connect immigrant farmers with plots of land to farm. Emmaly Renshaw is executive director of Feed Iowa First, which was launched in Linn County. The three-year community farming program […]

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is to quit smoking, and a survey finds 70-percent of Iowa smokers -want- to quit, while 50-percent will -try- to quit in 2024. There are mixed messages […]

One popular New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight. Nutritionist Heather Rasmussen says if you are positively committed to eating right and getting off the couch, you can absolutely get on course to better health. […]