Three of the five candidates running in the Republican Primary for governor are appearing tonight in a televised debate. The event will air live on Iowa PBS at 7 p.m. Former Iowa Department of ...

Iowa’s public charter schools will get $1.3 million in additional state funding to boost teacher salaries under a bill Goveror Reynolds will sign into law. The bill, which cleared the Senate yesterday ...

Former Des Moines superintendent Ian Roberts has pleaded guilty to falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and is scheduled to be sentenced in late May. (Polk County Jail photo) A report from the State ...

A judge today issued his ruling in the murder trial of Matthew Schleier of Marion, who was accused of strangling his five-year-old son Jack to death. KCRG TV carried the verdict as Judge David Cox ...

The Iowa State University Rural Life Poll finds many farmers haven’t embraced the use of drones as a tool. J. Arbuckle oversees the poll. “About 22% indicated that they used a drone in the previous ...

A factory that once housed aquaculture shrimp in Webster City will become the home of a beverage production facility. Officials with the New Jersey-based Edible Garden AG Incorporated picked Webster ...

You can now visit the official Iowa 250 tree on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines. Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig was one of the people in the group which planted the bur oak. “Which is our state ...

A high school club in central Iowa is now listed as the nation’s oldest synchronized swimming group. The Sharks are marking a century at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, fostering a community for ...

The governor’s choice to lead the largest agency in state government may not be able to remain director of the Department of ...

Cash will have to be accepted as payment for tickets to any sporting event in an Iowa public school under a bill that’s won approval in the Iowa House and Senate. Senator Tom Shipley of Nodaway said ...

Iowa’s craft beer and spirits industries have been going through a rough spot that mirrors national trends. Noreen Otto is ...

The Iowa Senate has voted to establish a new state tax on vaping products — the electronic cigarettes that heat liquid that turns into vapor that’s inhaled. Senator Kara Warme, a Republican from Ames, ...