A Democrat has won today’s special election for a seat the Iowa Senate. Unofficial results show West Des Moines City ...

The annual “University of Okoboji Winter Games” in northwest Iowa begin in less than four weeks and there’s chili on the schedule. The chili cook-off — a sort of kick-off for the weekend’s games — ...

DOT I-35 road camera view near Clear Lake. A cold front blew into Iowa Sunday bringing blizzard conditions that closed down Interstate 35 from Ames north to Clear Lake, and spawned snow squalls across ...

House Speaker Pat Grassley says Republicans in the Iowa House will seek longer prison sentences for people who’ve previously been convicted of violent crimes. “As we’ve seen lawlessness take over some ...

An eastern Iowa man was at the Iowa Lottery’s main office in central Iowa today to claim a $1 million prize. Iowa Lottery officials announced this afternoon that William Zak of Dysart bought at ...

A public hearing is scheduled next month as state officials review plans to switch a power plant in Cedar Rapids that’s been fueled with coal to natural gas. Alliant Energy’s Prairie Creek Generating ...

Iowa Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham (IEDA official photo) Iowa Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham says in today’s economy — and with a limited pool of workers as ...

If you had hand-held video games, watches or any other electronics under your tree, those shiny, button-sized batteries were likely in the box, too, and those batteries can be a critical problem if a ...

A Ventura firefighter was struck and injured by a vehicle that was traveling through a crash scene just west of the intersection of US Highway 18 and North Main Street in Ventura last night. The Clear ...

The Powerball jackpot for Christmas Eve is now $2.7 billion after Monday night’s drawing passed without a winner. Lottery officials say a total of $2.26 million in Powerball tickets were sold in Iowa ...

There’s a long-standing rumor about the red-and-green flowers traditionally associated with Christmas being deadly if eaten. Janna Day, a nurse and the education and outreach manager at the Iowa ...

A special election next Tuesday, December 30, will fill a vacancy in the Iowa Senate. Democrat Clair Celsi of West Des Moines, who had been a senator since 2019, died in October at the age of 59.