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 [...]
Lawyers for the State of Iowa are asking a judge to dismiss a public-records lawsuit by arguing the Iowa Supreme Court’s Attorney Disciplinary Board is not a public body that’s [...]
Theresa Greenfield, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development state director for Iowa, announced Tuesday that Kate Sand, the acting deputy director, will be taking her place during the upcoming [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed its first bill of the 119th Congress Tuesday, a measure that increases migrant detention and is named after a Georgia nursing student whose murder [...]
The Iowa Cancer Registry plans to deliver county-specific reports to all 99 counties in Iowa and meet with communities to point out particular policies or trends that might be driving [...]
Jimmy Carter was a Georgia peanut farmer and former one-term governor when he decided to run for the presidency in 1975. He was almost unknown nationally. He had virtually no [...]
On this episode of the Eye on the Tigers Podcast, Eli Hoff and Benjamin Hochman discuss Missouri's splashy transfer portal pickup of Penn State quarterback Beau Pribula. Eli ponders how [...]
Dear readers, Merry Yuletide! I’m posting a few singular greetings from holidays past: postcards from a bygone era, with images of a simpler time portraying a slower pace of life. [...]
The special election to replace now-Lt. Gov. Chris Cournoyer in the Iowa Senate will be Jan. 28, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday. The LeClaire Republican resigned from her seat representing [...]
EXCLUSIVE: A top Republican senator will accuse Meta – the parent company of Facebook – of "shadow-banning" and removing social media posts in a letter Tuesday demanding answers from CEO [...]
Iowa and the nation lost a rare public servant last week. And Deba Leach lost her husband, Jim. Former Congressman Jim Leach was a moderate-to-liberal Republican representing Iowa’s eastern congressional [...]
Several opponents of the proposed Summit Carbon Solutions carbon sequestration pipeline have received letters on behalf of the company threatening lawsuits over perceived defamation, an environmental group representative said. Jess [...]
AMES — National Farmers Union President Rob Larew spoke about the stalled reauthorization of the Farm Bill and strategies to promote agriculture and conservation within the upcoming administration Saturday at [...]
A Waterloo nursing home recently acquired by a private equity firm has been fined $10,000 for the death of a 45-year-old resident who choked on a sandwich. According to state [...]
As Iowa and the U.S. begin to rely more heavily on renewable energy sources, the greenhouse gas emissions from industries like agriculture are starting to take on greater significance. Michael [...]
WASHINGTON — Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst began proposing ways to cut government spending to the Trump team this weekend, but she’ll need to convince her colleagues in Congress if [...]
WEST BEND, Iowa – People who think seriously about how to limit the toll industrialized American agriculture takes on communities, land, and water may want to visit the Fehr family’s [...]
As Congress reconvened for a lame-duck session, Iowa’s federal delegation took action on allegations of government employee misconduct and voted on legislation related to Social Security. U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley [...]
Drake University will offer two new financial aid options for certain students, with the hopes of expanding educational opportunities for those seeking associate or bachelor’s degrees. The university announced Monday [...]
Two Iowa nursing homes with a history of staffing shortages have been added to a federal list of the nation’s worst care facilities. Last week, Bishop Drumm Retirement Center of [...]
Most Iowans vote in churches, community centers, libraries and the like. But Iowans in two central-Iowa precincts got to cast their ballots in slightly more festive surroundings: wineries. “I think [...]
Democrats work to flip vital Iowa House seats - CBS News Watch CBS News Democrat Christina Bohannan could potentially flip Iowa's 1st Congressional District if she defeats incumbent Republican Rep. [...]
This week, Paul Pate tried to clean up his mess. Iowa’s top election official insisted at a news conference on Wednesday it is the federal government’s fault that he ordered county [...]
Iowa home insurance rates, on average, had a double-digit increase this year due to persisting damages from derechos and inflation. A recent Insurify report listed Iowa as one of 15 [...]
Federal agencies Friday reported more cases of E. coli infections linked to meals at McDonald’s restaurants. While none of the sicknesses are in the Chicago area, cases have turned up [...]