It appears the long-running drought in western Iowa will continue running well into 2022 as experts predict below-normal flows for the Missouri River basin this spring and summer. Doug Kluck, the Central Region climate service […]

The Iowa House has passed a bill that would nullify many city and county ordinances that critics say prevent Iowans from having successful home based businesses. Representative Skyler Wheeler of Orange City, a Republican, said […]

Officials say three people are injured after a train hit a semi and derailed in Denison. Tim Zenk, the assistant fire chief for the Denison Fire Department, said the truck carrying weights for a crane […]

Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, a Republican from Marion, says she voted for the infrastructure projects in the government funding bill because it includes money targeted for specific needs in her district. Fellow Republican Congressman Randy […]

Republican Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull is blasting what he describes as “pork barrel” projects in the latest federal budget deal — spending that’s been touted by the three other Iowans serving in the U.S. […]

Iowans who want to donate to Ukrainian relief efforts need to make sure those donations are actually going to help people in need and not to a crook. AARP Iowa state director Brad Anderson says […]

Regional air carrier SkyWest Airlines has announced they are planning to pull their commercial service out of three Iowa airports. SkyWest has provided the U.S. Department of Transportation with a 90-day notice of intent to […]

A state panel is predicting tax payments being made to the State of Iowa will grow slightly more than they’d predicted three months ago. The Revenue Estimating Conference cites the continuing increase in sales tax […]

U.S. Senate candidate Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids is emphasizing the importance of Democratic candidates working together to boost the party’s prospects in 2022. “Yes, this is about the Senate race, doing this right, beating […]

After raising nearly$4 million last year and delivering the GOP response to President Biden’s State of the Union speech last week, Kim Reynolds has formally kicked off her bid for another term as Iowa’s governor. […]

The Iowa Senate has passed a bill to legalize the sale of raw milk at dairy farms. It still would be illegal to sell unpasteurized milk at restaurants and farmers markets if the bill becomes […]

The Story County Sheriff’s Department has charged a 17-year-old with setting fires at the Casey’s in Maxwell and in a bus at Collins-Maxwell High School. The Casey’s fires were set on February 3rd and 6th, […]

A southwest Iowa woman was killed in a crash in Audubon County on Tuesday afternoon. The Iowa State Patrol said 56-year-old Lee Ann Hansen, of Atlantic, died in the crash that occurred west of Brayton […]

Iowa’s two U.S. senators are introducing new legislation they say will bring an immediate lowering of gasoline prices while boosting biofuel production. Senator Joni Ernst says President Biden’s announcement Tuesday to ban Russian oil imports […]

Republicans on an Iowa House subcommittee has endorsed the governor’s plan to provide state-funded accounts for parents, to send up to 10,000 children to a private school. The panel held a subcommittee hearing as supporters […]

A new poll finds Iowa’s “Bottle Bill” remains popular with 84 percent of those surveyed. Sixty-one percent said they want more cans and bottles added to the nickel deposit list and more places to return […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he does not oppose the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Grassley says the timeline Democrats propose to confirm her by Easter isn’t “realistic.” […]

Democrats in the Iowa House are calling for cancelling the contract for an attorney hired to represent a House committee as it investigates a district court judge. Judge Kurt Stoebe of Humboldt has been accused […]

The Iowa Department of Education reports four-year graduations rates for the class of 2021 dropped slightly in the wake of the pandemic. The Department’s Information Bureau Chief, Jeff Pennington, says two factors impacted the numbers. […]

The pandemic wasn’t just lethal to many Iowans who caught COVID-19, but it’s also feared to be part of what’s driving up Iowa’s cancer death rate. Many people have put off regular screenings in the […]