President Donald Trump returns to Iowa today in what is described as a shift to focus on the 40 weeks until November’s ...

Administrators at a southwest Iowa school are promoting literacy in a new way. A book vending machine is now installed in the media center at Clarinda’s Pre-K-6 Building. Clarinda Elementary Principal ...

DNR state deer biologist Jace Elliott says hunters took just shy of 102,000 deer through the various seasons this year, which is similar to last year. He says the numbers varied quite a bit through ...

Representative Taylor Collins (R-Mediapolis) is chairman of the House Higher Education Committee (Official photo) A bill that’s cleared an Iowa House subcommittee would have the board that governs the ...

Iowa Democratic Party Chair Rita Hart on the Iowa Press set in Feb. 2025. (Iowa PBS photo) Iowa Democrats and Republicans will be holding Caucuses on Monday night, starting at 7 p.m. The meetings ...

House Minority Leader Brian Meyer (D-Des Moines) on the "Iowa Press" set on Jan. 30, 2026. (Iowa PBS photo) Brian Meyer, the leader of Democrats in the Iowa House, says a “silent majority” of Iowans ...

Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn says sales continue to be strong through last month at nearly 244 million dollars. “And those sales represent a 12,25% increase ahead of last year’s actual sales through ...

President Donald Trump says the top GOP leaders in congress are working on a deal that would ensure year-round sales of E15, the fuel that contains 15% ethanol. “I am trusting Speaker Mike Johnson, ...

The Iowa Supreme Court is siding with the Davenport Public Defender’s office in dealing with an overloaded court system. The Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the district court exceeded its limited role ...

House Republicans are proposing longer sentences for violent offenders with previous convictions and new restrictions in the bail system. The mandatory, 20 year sentences for “habitual” offenders ...

The annual Winter Dance Party starts today at the Surf Ballroom and Museum in Clear Lake, the site where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and “The Big Bopper” J.P. Richardson played their final concert ...

Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra, a Republican from Hull, has introduced a bill he says would keep American welfare benefits from being sent out of the country. “To codify what Trump did to ban welfare ...