Jim Carlin, running for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by fellow Republican Joni Ernst, says he’d sponsor a bill to ensure law-abiding gun owners with a state-issued permit to carry ...

As the 2025 school year gets underway, each of Iowa’s public school district must enforce a new state law that calls for restricting students’ access to cell phones while they’re in class ...

The Iowa DNR says a recent survey to document the population of a relatively common fish turned up two extremely rare fish in the lower Des Moines River near Ottumwa.

The first human case of a dangerous, flesh-eating parasite has been confirmed in the United States, in someone who recently traveled to El Salvador, and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins ...

Bankers in Iowa and nine other states who responded to the latest “Rural Mainstreet” survey predict many Midwest grain farmers will have more expenses than profits this year.

Firefighters from six departments battled a fire in a vacant building in downtown Charles City over the weekend. Charles City Fire Chief Sam Deverell says crews were dispatched to 108 North Main ...

Iowa motorists will need to be especially careful this afternoon as tens of thousands of youngsters will be making their way home from their first day of school. Brian Ortner, at AAA-Iowa, says ...

Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley is the longest-serving current member of the U.S. Senate and he’s not ruling out running for re-election in 2028. “I’ve been very careful to say that a ...

The Des Moines Symphony Orchestra is offering back-to-back free concerts over the upcoming Labor Day weekend highlighting the music of two popular, consecutive decades from the last century ...

At least three Iowa cities are seeing multi-million-dollar legal settlements from chemical companies for PFAS contamination in drinking water. The biggest Iowa payout is to Des Moines which ...

Smoke from a fire at a southwest Iowa chicken farm could be seen from 30 miles away last night. Emergency crews from at least a dozen communities responded to the fire near Clearfield at an egg ...

Iowa will soon have ten charter schools open statewide, including a new high school in Des Moines’ East Village. Des Moines Prep is operated by Opportunity Education, a nonprofit founded by ...