State/Local News

DES MOINES — As public service campaigns go, Gov. Kim Reynolds’ one encouraging all Iowans to do their part in slowing the spread of COVID-19 is a solid entry. However, the governor has...

It’s a positive sign for democracy that nearly 1.7 million Iowans participated in the 2020 general election, but Paul Lasley worries the results highlight a growing dichotomy between rural and...

So former Iowa Gov. Chet Culver gave me a call this past week. He had “read with interest” last Sunday’s column on how Democrats might rebuild support in rural areas. One...

Corrine “Cora” Salls has her very own rock garden underway at her new Iowa City home. These aren’t just any rocks. They are hand-painted by rock enthusiasts across the United...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge issued a scathing order Saturday dismissing the Trump campaign’s futile effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania, shooting down...

DES MOINES — Long-term care facilities were among the hardest-hit this past summer during COVID-19’s first surge. Now, with the coronavirus spreading through Iowa exponentially worse...

AMES — Iowa State and Kansas State traditionally play football games that end with margins that are within one score. That didn’t happen Saturday at Jack Trice Stadium. No. 17 Iowa...

Turns out it really does add up. The talk this week from the Iowa football camp was about how Penn State’s winless record coming into Saturday’s game at Beaver Stadium didn’t...

New positive tests in Iowa for the novel coronavirus reported as of Saturday morning declined from the day before, as did the number of hospitalizations, according to data recorded by the Iowa...

Workers from Texas who said they had not been paid for nearly a month of construction work in Cedar Rapids will be paid by a Colorado company overseeing the project. BluSky Restoration Contractors,...

IOWA CITY — A branch on a family tree of feminists, albeit unassuming ones, University of Iowa professor emeritus Linda Kerber has established herself as the “Van Allen of the...

As Thanksgiving approaches, Eastern Iowa schools are asking families to consider students when making their holiday plans by staying home, social distancing and wearing masks to help slow the spread...

Two turkeys from a Walcott farm’s “presidential flock” are headed to Washington, D.C., to be pardoned by President Donald Trump. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig stopped...

DES MOINES — The U.S. Attorney General’s Office on Friday presented the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing to Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation...

Iowa’s response to the spread of COVID-19 is once again in the spotlight as infections surge across the United States. Gov. Kim Reynolds in a Nov. 10 news conference said of the state’s...

SIOUX CITY — Mayor Bob Scott is warning Sioux City residents that police officers will start citing individuals and businesses that fail to comply with Gov. Kim Reynolds’ new public...

In 1620, a group of 102 passengers on the Mayflower landed in what would later become the United States. Four hundred years later, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants estimates there are...

News of potential success for a COVID-19 vaccine offered some hope this past week as new cases of the novel coronavirus surged and hospitals across Iowa scrambled to care for a record number of...

A former Iowan convicted of child sex abuse in Wisconsin alleges he was sexually abused himself as a teenager in the early 1990s by adults who worked at the State Training School for Boys in...

DES MOINES — Fresh from sweeping 2020 GOP election wins in Iowa, Jeff Kaufmann says he plans to stay on for another two years to help Republicans keep the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat...