STATE NEWS

Iowa has tossed out tens of thousands of expired COVID-19 vaccine doses and could toss out hundreds of thousands more if demand for the vaccine continues to lag in the state, health officials there said.…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR The prosecutor in the case of the inmate who pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder Friday in the deaths of two employees at the Anamosa prison says such pleas are…

BY DAR DANIELSON RADIO IOWA - Trucking companies continue to be behind when it comes to finding enough drivers to get behind the wheel. Iowa Motor Truck Association president, Brenda Neville, says they’d been behind before…

By DAVID PITT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Worried parents with children too young to be vaccinated called on the the Iowa State Board of Education on Thursday to implore Gov. Kim Reynolds to reverse…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON RADIO IOWA - The pace of vaccinations appears to be trending up slightly in Iowa as the number of patients hospitalized in Iowa with Covid grows. In the past 40 days, the…

A teenager who was critically injured in an Iowa amusement ride accident that killed his younger brother last month was expected to be released from the hospital Tuesday (8/3), the family’s attorney said. David Jaramillo,…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Iowa’s most populous county and host of this month’s Iowa State Fair now has a high level of coronavirus transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Polk County officials are urging…

There’s an Air Quality Alert for the entire state of Iowa until noon Monday (8/2).  Smoke from Canadian wildfires moved into Iowa last Thursday and is still in the Hawkeye State.  Sensitive groups such as…

An Air Quality Alert is in effect for the State of Iowa until 4pm Friday (7/30).  The National Weather Service says smoke from wildfires in the western US is moving into Iowa thanks to northerly…

With coronavirus cases rising throughout Iowa and around the nation, health experts are becoming increasingly worried about next month’s Iowa State Fair, which will bring more than 1 million people to Des Moines from around the state,…