Low-income Iowa families who rely on the Women, Infants and Children, or WIC  program for putting food on the table may need to make other arrangements if the federal government shuts down this weekend. Shelby […]

The Board of Regents have given the go-ahead for several projects on the University of Iowa campus. UI vice president Rod Lehnertz presented the projects, including one for the children’s hospital. “This as we have […]

Sioux City is hosting a festival highlighting diversity this weekend and organizers hope other Iowa communities will follow the example. The Sounds of West 7th Festival happens on Saturday with walking tours, food, art, and […]

An Iowan who had a leadership role in the Farm Service Agency a decade ago says a federal government shutdown would delay Conservation Reserve Program payments, which are issued in October. President Obama appointed John […]

The Iowa Court of Appeals has denied a new trial for a former Independence High School art teacher found guilty of sexual exploitation of a student. 40-year-old Kari Schwartz was convicted in 2021 after a […]

The Iowa Valley Community College District has named a new president. Anne Howsare Boyens will replace Kristie Fisher, who is leaving to become the president of Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. Howsare-Boynes says she […]

A film that tells the story of German soldiers who spent Christmas at a P-O-W camp in Algona back in 1944 has won the top movie of the year award from a faith based entertainment […]

The State of Iowa has nearly $5.4 billion in unspent tax dollars and the governor’s promising much of it will be the fuel for tax cuts. The final report on the state fiscal year that […]

With a federal government shutdown looming this weekend, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says it’s “idiocy” to be going through this process again. The U.S. Senate has created a bipartisan package that’s designed to temporarily fund […]

Iowa might be quieter than usual around the holidays this year as a survey finds a large percentage of the state’s residents are planning to go, well, someplace else. Brian Ortner, spokesman for AAA Iowa, […]

It’s still early, but the harvest season in northwest Iowa is getting off to a good start, according to ISU Extension agronomist Leah Ten Napel. “Overall, we have a lot of acres left to go,” […]

A leader in the union that represents 19-thousand federal employees who work in Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas says some of them will be required to work, without pay, if there’s a federal government […]

The rain farmers have been hoping for slowed some of the harvest last week. The U.S.D.A. reports says rainfall cut the time in the field by about two days. The corn harvest is now 9% […]

An already-crowded Animal Rescue League of Iowa is even shorter on space now after teams were dispatched to Boone County where nearly a hundred dogs had to be removed from what’s described as a puppy […]

Waterloo is partnering with the Iowa DNR to replace about half of the trees that were lost to the emerald ash borer in the past decade. The city will be making one type of apple […]