Senator Joni Ernst says the fourth indictment against former President Trump has had little impact on the 2024 presidential race. “Folks are really becoming desensitized because there are so many indictments out there,” Ernst […]

Southeast Iowa’s Van Buren County is hosting its 37th annual Bike Van Buren this weekend, where cyclists can enjoy the landscape, the rural lifestyle and, of course, the home-baked pies. Emily Starnes, executive director of […]

Questions continue after the USS Sioux City was decommissioned this week barely five years after being put to sea. Sioux City Chamber of Commerce president Chris McGowen attended the decommissioning Monday. “While the commissioning is […]

A Fort Dodge mother charged with first-degree murder in the death of her infant daughter has followed the baby’s father and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Taylor Blaha pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in […]

The Iowa Aviation Museum is holding its 30th annual Wings Fly-In/Drive-In and Hall of Fame induction Saturday in Greenfield. The museum’s Kris Schildberg says this year’s Hall of Fame inductee is Jim Zangger, who’s been […]

The National Weather Service forecast is calling for hot and humid air to flow into Iowa this weekend and it could stick around through the middle of next week. The conditions might be uncomfortable for […]

Work has begun to fix a 40-foot side sinkhole near Knoxville. An Iowa Department of Agriculture engineer’s report concluded the sinkhole formed when an abandoned limestone mine underneath collapsed. Decorah-based Bruening Rock Products operates a […]

Some schools and colleges are trying to ban students from using artificial intelligence in their coursework, but a University of Iowa instructor is encouraging her students to embrace AI in all of her writing classes. […]

The 11 day reign of a big pig from northwest Iowa will end this Sunday. Sasquatch, this year’s Big Boar at the Iowa State Fair, weighed in at just over a thousand pounds. Wilbur Kehrli […]

With classes starting next week for hundreds of thousands of Iowa students, many school districts statewide are facing a common problem — a lack of school bus drivers. In northwest Iowa, Le Mars Community Schools […]

It would be a big shot heard ’round the political world and it’s clear G-O-P candidates are gunning for it. Vivek Ramaswamy is among the 12 presidential candidates appearing with Iowa’s most popular Republican at […]

An Osage man charged in the death of a Mason City woman has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Twenty-three-year-old Nathan Gilmore was arrested […]

Iowa law says schools cannot start before August 23 and next Wednesday will be the first day of school for more than half a million Iowa students. It will be the first day for new […]

The annual Sergeant Floyd Memorial encampment is this weekend along the banks of the Missouri River in Sioux City. Sergeant Charles Floyd was the only member of the 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition to die. […]

UNI forward Austin Phyfe has announced that he will forgo his final year of athletic eligibility and medically retire from basketball. A 6′ 9″, 249-pound native of Waverly, Iowa, Phyfe announces his decision after a […]

At least one Iowa school district has turned to using artificial intelligence to try and stay in compliance with a new state law on what constitutes age-appropriate books in school libraries. Bridgette Exman, assistant superintendent […]

The state unemployment rate held steady at two-point-seven percent for the third straight month in July. Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson Jess Dougherty says the number of people entering the workforce continues to increase. “Went up […]

The responses to the fast-moving wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui are being carefully watched by a University of Iowa professor who studies disaster transportation logistics. Ann Campbell, a professor of management sciences in […]

A southwest Iowa man is facing dozens of child sex abuse charges for allegedly abusing a child for the past decade. Forty-two-year-old Ryan Kissell had been employed as a coach by Creston schools, but was […]

Each of Iowa’s 99 county sheriffs is being asked to report on what local crimes they’re seeing that may be tied to international cartels, from illegal drugs to human trafficking. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says […]