4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (244+ words) A north-central Iowa community will move forward with a $43.4-million plan to refurbish its high school. Voters in the Webster City school district approved a renovation project to its high school to begin by the middle part of 2027. The measure…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (242+ words) An election official in northwest Iowa is one of two Iowans appointed to a bipartisan national council that was created by the 2002 Help America Vote Act. “It is a collaboration of all states in the United States for election administration…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (245+ words) Two candidates running for statewide office are calling for a majority of the food served in Iowa schools to be raised in Iowa. Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for governor, said it’s about creating new markets to give farmers an…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (244+ words) The candidates running to be Iowa’s next governor use words like “creepy” and “invasive” to describe the tens of thousands of Flock cameras that are capturing and storing license plate images and both would support state regulations for automated license…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (246+ words) A special investigation conducted by the State Auditor’s Office has identified questionable transactions totalling $122,000 at a chamber of commerce in northeast Iowa. The investigation reviewed finances while Brandie Tomkins was director of the Guttenberg Chamber of Commerce. She was first…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (244+ words) Iowans are being warned about a rising number of fake employment scams. Khesha Duncan, spokeswoman for the Better Business Bureau, says con artists are especially targeting college students and young adults who are looking for work. “If you take a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (225+ words) The “One Big Beautiful Bill” President Trump signed a year ago is one of the flash points in Iowa’s third congressional district race. The measure eliminated taxes on overtime and tips and preserved the income tax cuts Trump approved in…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (244+ words) Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, the Iowa Republican Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate, used her speech at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox yesterday to question her Democratic opponent’s voting record in the Iowa House and his fundraising. “It’s a pity,…...