The Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. (Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Corrections)The Iowa Department of Corrections announced Monday the appointment of Mark C. Foreman as warden of [...]
Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen joined other university and business leaders in calling for national investment in research and development. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)Iowa State University leadership [...]
Iowa cyclists participating in Ride of Silence 2025 sit for each injured cyclist, lie down for each cyclist killed on the roads in the past year, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, [...]
USDA approved a demonstration waiver in Iowa to exclude certain foods from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA)The U.S. Department of Agriculture approved Gov. Kim [...]
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig talked about the ag industry in Iowa and his potential bid for governor, April 25, 2025. (Image from Iowa PBS video)Iowa Secretary of Agriculture [...]
A federal judge has again temporarily blocked portions of an Iowa law restricting school books with sexual content. (Photo by Diyosa Carter/Getty Images)A federal judge has again temporarily blocked portions [...]
The Iowa House passed legislation restricting local governments from implementing more stringent fireworks regulations than in state law on July 3, 4 and Dec. 31. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital [...]
The Gophers men’s basketball program picked up an in-state commitment as its first pledge in the 2026 class on Saturday. Cedric Tomes, a 6-foot guard from East Ridge High School, [...]
Harvested corn is piled near Lake City in western Iowa. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch)Bills updating the grain indemnity program and allowing the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land [...]
Corn has begun to emerge in parts of Iowa. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch)Despite another week of rainy conditions, which left an average of just over three days suitable [...]
A Dorper ram in the foreground with a Romanov ewe. (Photo by Kreg Leymaster/Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)It’s December 20th. And this story took place when my husband [...]
The golden dome of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Two major roadblocks remain before Iowa lawmakers can pass the state’s budget and [...]
Former Iowa Governor and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack chats with Iowa farmers in Warren County on April 29, 2025. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) WARREN COUNTY — [...]
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins reinforced SNAP work and citizenship requirements with memorandums sent to state agencies. (Photo by Lance Cheung/USDA)U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued memorandums to state [...]
Dried magic mushrooms with spore prints on tin foil. (Photo by Akchamczuk/Getty Images)The Iowa House passed legislation Monday to legalize the use of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in “magic [...]
A small solar field in Boone. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Research from The Nature Conservancy found current clean energy tax credits, if kept in place through 2032 would [...]
At least 80% of students enrolled in UI medical and dental programs would have to be Iowa residents or have a connection with the state under a bill that passed [...]
University of Iowa graduate students are working to compile information and resources for international students worried about their visas. (Photo by Brooklyn Draisey/Iowa Capital Dispatch)After news broke of a visa [...]
Vote stickers in a basket on Election Day 2024. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Senators sent legislation on Iowa’s elections to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk Monday that included provisions [...]
Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on their Over the Moon farm in Iowa. The farm was one of thousands benefiting from a local food program recently cut [...]
The Iowa Senate Education Committee moved ahead a number of bills focused on K-12 and higher education Thursday. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)The Iowa Senate Education Committee advanced a [...]
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. -- A small plane traveling from Iowa crashed in a Minneapolis, Minnesota, suburb Saturday, investigators said.The Federal Aviation Administration said the SOCATA TBM7 crashed in a residential [...]
Magistrate David J. Hanson addresses the Iowa Supreme Court on March 27, 2025. (Video capture courtesy of the Iowa Supreme Court) An Iowa magistrate who questioned in court whether a [...]
An Iowa bill pertaining to pesticide lawsuits would help the makers of RoundUp and other pesticides. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowa senators narrowly passed a bill Wednesday that [...]
The Iowa House passed a bill Monday expanding required training for local officials on open meetings and records laws and raising penalties for violations. (Photo by Getty Images)The Iowa House [...]
Des Moines University students learned their medical residency program at a DMU Match Day celebration on March 21, 2025. (Photo by Brooklyn Draisey/Iowa Capital Dispatch)A crowd of students, their families [...]
Iowans gathered for Celebrate Iowa's Outdoors Day to champion outdoor recreation in Iowa. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowans gathered at the Iowa Capitol Thursday to celebrate the parks, [...]
The Iowa Senate passed legislation March 17, 2025 to ban citizens' police review boards. (Stock photo by Oliver Helbig/Getty Images)Iowa local governments would not be able to have citizen police [...]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz held a town hall event at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines March 14, 2025, answering questions and hearing from Iowans who expressed their problems with [...]
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig enjoys ice cream from the Iowa State University Creamery. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) AMES — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced [...]
The Iowa Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch)The Iowa Senate approved legislation Monday allowing Iowa residents to seek district court action during a public sector [...]
(Photo by Stephen Ausmus/Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)Iowa’s federal delegation is calling for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide financial relief for turkey farmers impacted by the [...]
A trail at Jester Park near Saylorville Lake on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) The Senate Natural Resources Committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would bar [...]
The Aspire of Washington nursing home. (Photo via Google Earth)An Iowa nursing home run by an out-of-state company with a long history of regulatory violations has been hit with $64,750 [...]
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Iowa lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday that would end state civil rights protections for transgender people. Advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights said that Iowa would become the first state [...]
City of Postville, Iowa. (Photo via Google Earth)A nonprofit advocacy group is suing Agri Star Meat & Poultry of Postville for alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act. Driftless [...]
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Iowa and supporters gathered for a lobbying day at the Iowa Capitol Feb. 24. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Iowans dressed in pink and toting [...]
The Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing oversees restaurant inspections in Iowa. (Photo via Getty Images; DIAL logo courtesy of Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing)State, city and [...]
A teacher draws with students. (Photo by Cavan Images/Getty Images)The governor’s legislative proposal aimed at improving access to child care across the state advanced through subcommittees in both chambers Wednesday. [...]
(Photo by Dan Forer/Getty Images)Schools could use state grant funding for therapeutic classrooms to provide access to vitamin and mineral supplementals, “minimally processed whole foods” and exposure to natural light [...]
The University of Iowa Health Care employee union met with the Iowa Board of Regents bargaining team Feb. 14, 2025 to trade initial proposals. (Photo courtesy of the University of [...]
As a 2023 law restricting schools from curriculum and instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation for kindergarten through 6th grade remains challenged in court, state lawmakers on Wednesday [...]
Iowa House lawmakers plan to hold a public hearing Thursday on the state’s funding for the public K-12 education system in the coming school year. The public hearing was called [...]
ALTOONA — Monte Shaw, executive director of Iowa Renewable Fuels Association urged industry leaders and farmers at the association’s summit Tuesday to pursue expanding markets and to be wary of [...]
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hosting a series of public meetings to discuss the past hunting and trapping season and possible rule and regulation changes to the sports. [...]
Iowa Auditor of State Rob Sand issued a report Thursday that says more than $400,000 in taxpayer money was improperly spent through a program run by Iowa Workforce Development. At [...]
Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad spoke Tuesday at a subcommittee meeting in support of legislation that would launch a “school of intellectual freedom” at the University of Iowa, countering critics [...]
In Buggy Land, cattle sometimes break through fencing and wander out onto the road. But cattle don’t fly through the air here the way they do in Ireland. They don’t [...]
Two western Iowa nursing homes with a history of regulatory violations have been added to a federal list of the nation’s worst care facilities. The Garden View Care Center in [...]