Iowa News Share

04/09/2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected on Wednesday to announce economic policy proposals aimed at helping small businesses.

04/09/2024

Iowa Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg, has resigned from his position effective Sept. 3. He will lead the Iowa Bankers Association.

04/09/2024

Trump frequently suggests, as he did in a TikTok filmed at Arlington Cemetery, that an 18-month period without hostile-fire deaths took place entirely in his presidency.

04/09/2024

More men are speaking out in defense of reproductive rights because of harrowing experiences that wives or partners have suffered when a pregnancy went awry.

03/09/2024

Recent research estimates that more than 6,000 Iowans will die of cancer this year.

02/09/2024

(Oskaloosa) -- Rural regions like the one surrounding this southern Iowa town used to have a lot more babies, and many more places to give birth to them.

29/08/2024

The far-right extremist playbook would immediately raise taxes for the middle class by thousands of dollars while also pushing for long-term changes that could raise taxes by $5,900.

29/08/2024

America First Policy Institute has been quietly drafting blueprints for a second Trump administration.

29/08/2024

More Iowa schools are choosing to count nonbinary as a gender in their student data; 386 students in 62 districts identified as nonbinary in 2023-24.

29/08/2024

The family of a Green Beret buried there expressed concern about videos and photos taken by his grave. And a cemetery employee declined to press charges after an altercation with the Trump team, fearing retribution.

29/08/2024

The Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) is launching a new program that will provide free telehealth services for mental health. The service is for all students in the district.

29/08/2024

The request follows the July news that the Iowa Veterans Home would undergo a “restructuring” process.

29/08/2024

The report follows a major fertilizer spill in the East Nishnabotna River earlier in 2024 that resulted in an estimated 750,000 dead fish.

29/08/2024

A U.S. government report concludes that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children

28/08/2024

Sunny and hot today, but strong storm chances return Thursday. Find out when and where the strongest storms will form in your Storm Team 8 forecast.

28/08/2024

They are driven by concerns over students' mental health and academic performance.

28/08/2024

Damage estimates and a repair timeline are still in the works.

28/08/2024

A local from Onawa Iowa raised enough money to get West Monona School District out of lunch debt.

19/08/2024

Librarians across Iowa provide materials in all types of formats, even building community on social media platforms. But meeting their community's varying needs can translate to hefty price tags, straining library budgets.

19/08/2024

Nine states are challenging an executive order by President Joe Biden that would enlist federal agencies to help register residents to vote.

19/08/2024

Advocates for abortion access say compounding crises are causing funding challenges and potential disruptions to reproductive care.

15/08/2024

Over 50 people met in Des Moines Wednesday night to discuss potential changes to policies affecting homeless people. Many decried the proposals.

15/08/2024

Report: ​​Rural Women See Drops in Health and Reproductive Care
For the first time a comprehensive research into women’s health outcomes looked at the entire country. Across the board, limitations to care access put rural women at an increased risk.

New research has found that rural women are seeing more negative health outcomes as a result of state policy choices that limit their access to health and

15/08/2024

Most women oppose leaving abortion laws to the states, across party lines: Poll

Three-quarters of reproductive age women in the United States oppose letting states decide whether abortion is legal, including large majorities of Democrats and independents, according to a survey…

15/08/2024

Medicare drug talks yielded $6 billion in savings

The announcement of the final prices marks the culmination of Democrats' decades-long push.

15/08/2024

https://www.kcci.com/article/social-security-benefits-arent-keeping-up-with-inflation/61874816

Every $100 a household spent in 2010 would only purchase $80 today.

13/08/2024

Senate File 2435 defines “chronic absenteeism” as when a student is absent for 10% of the school year.

13/08/2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/perry-iowa-tyson-pork-factory-closure-layoffs/

Perry, Iowa, grapples with the closure of a Tyson pork processing plant as many laid-off workers scramble for new employment.

13/08/2024

While fighting potential fraud in government programs has long been a conservative rallying cry, recent criticisms of the ACA represent a renewed line of attack.

12/08/2024

House conservatives push for funding fight as shutdown looms weeks before election

The House Freedom Caucus is pushing to attach a voting provision that Democrats oppose to the must-pass funding bill and demanding a 2025 deadline, with hope for a GOP trifecta.