STATE NEWS

By Pat Powers (Radio Iowa) While it’s unseasonably warm across much of Iowa this  afternoon, forecasters say high temperatures will be back down in the 20s by Thursday with the chance for more snow, which…

By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) The Iowa GOP’s chairman says there will be “layer upon layer” of safeguards for voting in the 2024 Iowa Republican Party’s Caucuses that will kick off the GOP’s presidential…

DES MOINES – The start of 2023 was encouraging for water resources in Iowa.  Precipitation for the month was 1.82 inches, nearly double the normal moisture.  All of Iowa’s reporting stations reported near to above-average precipitation. …

By Pat Powers (Radio Iowa) There’ll be lots of parties this weekend for the big game and there will also be plenty of patrol cars on the road looking for drunk and impaired drivers. Sergeant…

By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) The owner of a Cedar Rapids business is in Washington, D.C., urging congress to modernize the Small Business Administration. Sydney Rieckhoff is the CEO of Almost Famous Popcorn, a…

By Dar Danielson (Radio Iowa) Iowa State University researchers are part of an effort led by Purdue University to diversify the cornbelt. ISU sociology professor J. Arbuckle says farmers once planted many different crops on…

By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) The Democratic National Committee has voted to eliminate Iowa from the list of states that will start the party’s 2024 presidential campaign. South Carolina is replacing Iowa as the…

By O. Kay Henderson (Radio Iowa) Republicans in the state legislature say they will soon send the governor a bill to increase general state spending on Iowa’s public schools by about $106 million. “A very…

By Pat Powers (Radio Iowa) January is usually the coldest and driest month of the year, but State Climatologist, Justin Glisan says the numbers went against the averages this year. “Little over 24 degrees is…

By Ellis Cudjoe (Radio Iowa) There's a new CEO at a southeast Iowa hospital where authorities are investigating assaults committed by an employee found dead in a hospital room last fall. William Keifer was announced…