Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is calling on the federal EPA to demand one of its former leaders pay back tens of thousands of dollars she “wasted” while in office. Grassley stopped short of saying criminal […]

The tree-planting program called ReLeaf is holding a ceremony in Cedar Rapids this morning, marking the devastating derecho that swept across Iowa three years ago today. Winds peaked at 140 miles an hour and it […]

Governor Kim Reynolds has appointed her former legal counsel to the Iowa Court of Appeals. Samuel Langholz has been Chief Deputy Attorney General for the State of Iowa since Republican Brenna Bird took over as […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he has a plan to “unleash” America’s resources and make the United States the world’s top energy producer by 2040. China has led the world in energy production since […]

Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn visited a Boys and Girls Club in Des Moines today to announce bipartisan legislation he says will help improve the reporting in child pornography cases. Nunn says the National Center for […]

A late entrepreneur from north-central Iowa who’s credited with launching two businesses that became global powerhouses will be honored next week in the town of Garner. Garner Mayor Tim Schmidt is proclaiming next Monday as […]

The Davis County Sheriff’s Office has issued an endangered person advisory for a missing 13-year-old girl. Kaylee Arnold was last seen in the Casey’s Store in the small southeast Iowa town of Eldon at 7 […]

The Iowa Barn Foundation has hosted a barn raising on the Iowa State Fairgrounds, in hopes of raising fairgoers’ awareness of what it takes to preserve barns. A 16 foot tall barn now stands in […]

The Iowa State Fair starts tomorrow and on Saturday seven presidential candidates plan to compete for the attention of tens of thousands of fairgoers and throngs of media. On Saturday morning, four GOP candidates plan […]

As we endure the sweltering sun of summer, Iowans may find some relief in pondering the cooler weather that’s sure to come. The new edition of the Farmers’ Almanac is now available and managing editor […]

The Iowa DNR heard public comments Tuesday on a new manure management plan for a large cattle feedlot in Clayton County near the headwaters of the Bloody Run Creek, which is a trout stream. Supreme […]

Gasoline prices rose almost 50 cents a gallon in Iowa in the past month, and they’re still climbing. Brian Ortner, spokesman for  AAA Iowa, says prices should start to level off very soon. “We’re at […]

State and federal authorities say the suspect in an attempted bank robbery in Elk Horn is in custody. Shelby County State Bank staff told officers a man wearing a mask and a bank customer were […]

A central Iowa man who admitted to sexually abusing three of his nine children has died in prison. The Iowa Department of Corrections says 48-year-old James Beaudrie of Des Moines died of a chronic illness […]

The State of Iowa is using nearly $21.3 million in pandemic relief money to buy a fully furnished office building and move all 540 employees out of the Wallace State Office Building that sits across […]

A Pew Research Center study finds this is the oldest-ever U.S. Senate, with a median age of 65 years, versus the average age of the U.S. population at 39. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is 89 […]

The Board of Regents today approved the University of Iowa’s request to purchase the financially troubled Mercy Hospital in Iowa City for $20 million. University of Iowa president, Barbara Wilson, told the Regents that the […]

Top state officials have hired a Washington, D.C. law firm to investigate TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media giant. The state’s Executive Council has approved a contract with Cooper and Kirk, a law firm that worked […]