State/Local News

The Linn County Supervisors will consider a face-cover regulation at its Monday meeting as COVID-19 numbers rise in Linn County. The Board of Supervisors will discuss whether or not to issue the...

The Gazette is working with the Linn Landowner Forum to present a weekly series of columns about elements landowners should con-sider when replacing trees and plants lost in the Aug. 10 derecho. The...

As coronavirus cases in Iowa reach totals not seen before in the pandemic — driving an alarming number of patients into hospitals and raising concerns about further spread during the upcoming...

DES MOINES — Statehouse Republicans say Iowa voters this month gave them a mandate to continue their conservative agenda, but that may not extend to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Invest in Iowa...

What lessons should Republicans learn from the 2020 elections? On one hand, Republicans gained seats in the U.S. House and potentially held control of the U.S. Senate, pending runoff elections in...

Back in the spring of 2017, your columnist humbly argued that Iowa Democrats might want to think about tapping a gubernatorial nominee who is not from Des Moines. Gov. Chet Culver, hailing from Des...

President-elect Joe Biden faces considerable political obstacles to enacting the most ambitious pieces of his agenda. The biggest hurdle, pending the outcome of two Georgia runoff votes, would be a...

More Iowans were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past 24-hours than in any previous 24-hour period since the start of the pandemic. According to data from the Iowa Department of Public Health, the...

Iowa State University administrators have and are continuing to face pressure from multiple sides to both act and not act after its “College Republicans” student group tweeted a call to...

On Nov. 9, Pfizer pharmaceutical company announced promising preliminary results from clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This was welcome news, as we have all been eagerly awaiting a...

MARION — As COVID-19 numbers continue to rise throughout the state and in Eastern Iowa, the city of Marion is taking additional measures to help curb the spread. On Friday, the city announced...

Last week, Alliant Energy announced it would retire its coal-fired Lansing Generating Station by the end of 2022 and convert its coal-fired Burlington Generating Station to natural gas in 2021....

CEDAR RAPIDS — An 18-year-old Cedar Rapids man, who was on probation for two armed carjackings he committed at age 15, was convicted Thursday of a third armed carjacking. Tywun Moore,...

In a 4-3 split ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court on Friday overturned a first-degree murder conviction of a Marion man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 26 times and then concealed her body in a roll of...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Congresswoman-elect Ashley Hinson, who is isolating at home because she tested positive for COVID-19, does not support another lockdown at this time, but is calling for...