Central Iowa Water Works continues lawn watering ban for businesses. Recent massive rains diluted nitrate levels, but they've ...

More than 1,000 calls to 911 in Iowa were unable to connect because of a cable that failed in a Phoenix data center on June ...

Hear from 7-foot-3 transfer Andrew McKeever for the first time since he started practicing with the Hawkeyes, who lacked a ...

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that a vaccinated Iowa adult has contracted the measles ...

Praise for West Des Moines' drone show, despair for the Supreme Court and more in these letters published July 6-12, 2026.

An Iowa law removing gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code took effect Tuesday, the first action of its kind in the United States. The new rollback of protections is ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — So people are wondering why the Nebraska captains refused to shake hands on Friday night before the coin toss at Kinnick Stadium. Let me try to explain. They do not like Iowa. Those ...

Iowa's speed limit is going up this summer. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation June 1 raising the state's default speed limit to 60 miles per hour, up from the current speed limit of 55 miles per ...

Most new laws take effect July 1 — the beginning of the state's fiscal year — unless otherwise specified. Some of the most notable new laws will ban drivers from holding cell phones, prohibit ...

Theresa Weeks was making spaghetti when a Senate candidate came knocking on her door. “I was just watching your commercial,” Weeks said, extending her arms to give Josh Turek a hug on her front steps.

A retired water scientist named Chris Jones is running in the Democratic primary for secretary of agriculture in Iowa. That may not sound like a blockbuster race. But Jones is an unusual candidate: It ...