State/Local News

Iowa saw the fewest continuing weekly unemployment claims recorded last week in about seven months. Continuing claims fell by 4,442, to 41,967, between Oct. 11 and 17 — the fewest continuing...

IOWA CITY — A kitchen fire caused an estimated $25,000 in damage to an Iowa City home, authorities say. Crews were called to 2023 Taylor Drive around 1:30 a.m. Thursday for a report of a stove...

CEDAR RAPIDS — She’s not saying she won’t, but Nikki Haley is trying to tamp down the speculation that her campaign swing through Iowa is a precursor to a 2024 presidential...

Our top candidates for the U.S. Senate are fighting over dark money, who takes it, who colludes with it and who is the bigger hypocrite. Sure, money from undisclosed donors is a problem. But so is...

CEDAR RAPIDS — “Now it’s OK, but it’s still too early to know,” Blanche Vega said. “It’s still good. I’m really thankful I was able to keep up....

DAVENPORT — As a doctor and a veteran from “humble beginnings,” Mariannette Miller-Meeks will bring “moral clarity” to the health care reform debate in the country...

DES MOINES — The Iowa Supreme Court, in a narrow 4-3 decision Wednesday, let stand a state law that bars county auditors from filling out voters’ personal information on absentee ballot...

CEDAR RAPIDS — It may be unusual, but in separate events Wednesday in Cedar Rapids, Democrats and Republicans found not one but two areas of agreement. First: This 2020 election is the most...

Multiple new polls on the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Iowa have their slight differences but overall indicate one thing: Both races are very close. The latest polls came from Monmouth...

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MARION — When Tom Daubs first started working as a cop, calls involving a mental health issue “weren’t nearly as common as they are now.” “But we still...

CEDAR RAPIDS — At Hi Tea in Cedar Rapids, owner Jennifer Dougherty and her daughter Lola Liu want to share two things — delicious tea and desserts and a bit of Chinese...

WASHINGTON — Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to federal...

Just 12 days before the Nov. 3 election, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger former Vice President Joe Biden meet Thursday for their final televised debate. When: 8 p.m. Iowa...

MARION — Removal of the former railroad bridge above Marion Boulevard is moving along. The construction is part of the future CeMar Trail project, which will provide a trail system connecting...

WEST DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds says her administration will try to convince federal auditors to allow its plan to spend $20 million in coronavirus relief funds on a long-planned...

University of Northern Iowa’s Department of Public Safety has updated its “use of force policy” to ban chokeholds in most cases and to require officers intervene and report...

DES MOINES — Iowa-based electric utility MidAmerican Energy has idled nearly four dozen power-generating wind turbines after huge blades broke off two turbines in recent weeks. MidAmerican...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Police arrested an 18-year-old man Tuesday after he allegedly robbed a 17-year-old who was selling a belt at Kennedy High School in northeast Cedar Rapids. Cedar Rapids police...

32 Iowans died in the past 24 hours, according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Health, setting a new record high for COVID-19 deaths in a 24-hour period. The previous high was 25 deaths...