STATE NEWS

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR RADIO IOWA - The three Republicans from Iowa who serve in the U.S. House voted against the pandemic relief House Democrats approved this weekend. Fourth district Congressman Randy Feenstra of Hull is…

Governor Kim Reynolds has good news about coronavirus vaccines in Iowa.  At a Thursday morning (2/25) news conference, she said Iowans are getting the vaccines in good numbers. "Next week, we project that 70 percent…

Republicans in the Iowa Senate approved a bill Tuesday sharply limiting early voting, with some arguing that changes were needed to ensure the integrity of the state’s election despite no evidence of fraud. The bill,…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON RADIO IOWA - A key Republican says GOP legislators plan to give final approval tomorrow to a bill that shortens Iowa’s early voting period and makes other election law changes. Republican Representative…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON RADIO IOWA - A Republican from Adel is entering his seventh week in a new role in the Iowa Legislature, but his name could be on the ballot for another office next…

A bill providing public schools extra money to cover Covid-related costs has won bipartisan approval in the Iowa House. $27 million would be split among all districts, but Republican Representative Dustin Hite of New Sharon…

Iowa grocery stores could opt out of accepting empty containers covered by the state's nickel deposit law under legislation that has cleared a Senate subcommittee. Senator Ken Rozenboom, a Republican from Oskaloosa, says his bill…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Governor Kim Reynolds says it’s time for an ethanol mandate in Iowa, to boost an industry battered by the EPA’s resistance to the federal ethanol production mandate. “It’s such an important industry…

An election watchdog group has filed a federal lawsuit that claims an Iowa-based nonprofit organization violated election laws by failing to register as a political committee that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to support…

Iowa health officials have reversed a decision to withhold COVID-19 vaccines from some counties that were reported as not having used up to 80% of their allocation last week. The Iowa Department of Public Health…