A businessman from Texas who’s launched a campaign for the GOP’s 2024 nomination for president is visiting Iowa this week. Ryan Binkley is also lead pastor and co-founder of Create Church in a suburb of […]

Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery announced on Monday that Belmont transfer and Iowa City native Even Brauns (pronounced Evan) has signed with the University of Iowa. Brauns (6-foot-9, 240 pounds) has two years of eligibility […]

A Florida-based comedian, illusionist, and motivational speaker will visit three Iowa schools this week to talk about bullying prevention. Tom Coverly has appearances scheduled in Colfax, Iowa Falls, and Webster City. “I’ll be doing three school […]

Farmers had dry planting weather most of last week and they made the most of it. The corn harvest shot to 70% planted compared to 29% in the previous week. Corn planting had been one […]

The Iowa Legislature has approved spending six million dollars on the Honey Creek Resort in southern Iowa. The state-owned resort, which opened in 2008, has a hotel and dozens of cabins, an indoor waterpark and […]

Iowa State University researchers are getting a National Science Foundation grant to study if people who get cybersick while using virtual reality headsets can adapt over time. ISU psychology professor Jonathan Kelly predicts virtual reality […]

The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a 2017 ruling that allowed lawsuits directly against state officials for monetary damages under the Bill of Rights of the Iowa Constitution. The unanimous decision came in a case […]

The requirement that applicants for state teachers’ licenses be at least 21 years old is being eliminated. The bill getting rid of that minimum age for Iowa teachers cleared the legislature unanimously this year and […]

A Dubuque shipyard is getting $600,000 in federal funding to expand its operation along the banks of the Mississippi River. Carter Newt is the owner of Sunflower Enterprises, which manufactures custom barges. “Being centrally located […]

Warmer weather is finally here and Iowans who love to fish are getting out on — or beside — their favorite bodies of water, casting lines and seeing what they can catch. Nate Carr, a […]

Iowa no longer has a mandatory retirement age for reserve police officers and volunteer firefighters. Full and part-time police and firefighters in Iowa must retire at the age of 65. The governor has signed a […]

Reports say a woman in eastern Iowa survived a lightning strike in Sunday afternoon’s severe thunderstorms, while a tornado touched down in southwest Iowa’s Fremont County near Hamburg about 8 o’clock last night. That twister […]

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has taken one last swing through Iowa before announcing he’s running for the GOP’s next presidential nomination. Scott spoke to about 50 people in Waukee this weekend, promising he’s comfortable […]

A so-called “MEGA” package of state tax incentives — to try to lure a major business development to Iowa — stalled in the House on the final day of the 2023 legislative session. The “Major […]