Iowans have seen several unseasonable snowstorms this spring, but none of them compare to what’s known as the Blizzard of ’73. It was 50 years ago on Sunday that a monster winter weather system blasted […]

A new initiative will be launched in eastern Iowa next month, to try to keep Iowans with severe mental illnesses out of county jails and state prisons. Leslie Carpenter, co-founder of Iowa Mental Health Advocacy, […]

Iowa native and former astronaut Peggy Whitson will come out of retirement and return to weightlessness next month as the first female commander of a private space mission. Whitson, who grew up on a farm […]

Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of a train derailment Thursday in Sioux City. A Union Pacific spokesperson says about one dozen cars on a freight train derailed upright on the edge of […]

The Iowa Supreme Court has overturned a judgment against a central Iowa landlord who was convicted of discriminating against tenants. The Des Moines Civil and Human Rights Commission alleged Patrick Knueven of Des Moines and […]

Iowa All-American Kris Murray is headed to the NBA. Murray announced via social media he will forgo his senior season and enter the NBA Draft. Murray averaged better than 20 points and nearly eight rebounds […]

This week’s NASA announcement naming the four astronauts who will crew the Artemis Two mission to the Moon is being called “historic” by a physics and astronomy professor at the University of Iowa. Professor Allison […]

Iowa State University is getting a more than half a million dollar grant from the USDA to support research focused on planting two crops in the same field, like soybeans and winter wheat. It’s called […]

The April 18th federal tax filing deadline is rapidly approaching and the IRS plans to open its Des Moines office Saturday to take questions. IRS spokesman, Christopher Miller, says no appointment is necessary. “Opening the […]

The USDA will become responsible for the Iowa Wesleyan campus in Mount Pleasant when the university closes May 31 and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today said it’s “too early” to tell what’s next. “Our […]

The president of the University of Iowa will be cut a virtual ribbon during an online ceremony this afternoon to open what’s known as a digital twin replica campus. The so-called “metaversity” will be used […]

Next year, Iowans will vote on a proposed amendment that will align the Iowa Constitution with an election-related change made nationally more than five decades ago. In 1971, the 26th Amendment the U.S. Constitution was […]

Iowans are seeing buildings lit up at night with blue lights, and gardens filled with blue pinwheels as part of an effort to raise awareness about April being Prevent Child Abuse Month in the state. […]