The Mississippi River Bridge from Lansing into Wisconsin is shutting down for good today (Monday) so work can progress on the new bridge. DOT engineer Clayton Burke says they plan is to drop the east ...

This is National School Bus Safety Awareness week. State Trooper Paul Gardner says drivers need to remember the buses are out there every week day through the school year. “Be aware of how frequent ...

For the second time in less than a decade, a former city clerk in the small Delaware County town of Delhi has been charged with mishandling thousands of dollars in city funds. In 2017, Angela Billings ...

World Food Prize Foundation CEO Tom Vilsack in the "Hall of Laureates" in Des Moines. (WFP photo) World Food Prize events are underway in Des Moines as several thousand government officials, ...

A Democrat from Boone in central Iowa has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for Iowa’s open U.S. House seat in northeast Iowa. Guy Morgan said while he doesn’t live in the ...

Democrat Jackie Norris has ended her campaign for the U.S. Senate. Norris, who is president of the Des Moines School Board, said the recent “crisis” surrounding the immigration arrest for former ...

A man from western Iowa died during an early morning motorcycle accident this morning. The crash in Adair County resulted in the death of 20-year-old Devon Michael Ernst of Adair. The Iowa State ...

Jeff Kaufmann of Wilton was re-elected chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa this past February. (RI file photo) Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann is leading a committee that will help determine ...

Congressman Randy Feenstra — a Republican who’s planning to launch a campaign for governor soon — supports the federal tax credits that could go to the developer of a proposed carbon pipeline, but ...

Public health experts who attended the Iowa Cancer Summit in Ankeny this week say raising the tobacco tax and putting more money towards radon mitigation can help address the state’s high cancer rates ...

October continues to remain unseasonably warm, but the Iowa DOT has started putting snow plows and salt spreaders on some trucks. Winter Operations director Craig Bargfrede says they start their ...

A recently released report shows well over 33,000 people were working in Iowa’s clean energy sector in 2024, nearly 3% more than the year before. E2, a national group that advocates for ...