When Mandi Carozza visits home, she always makes sure to drop by her best friend Jenny’s house to visit with her family. “I see Jenny in her mom, and I think she sees Jenny in me,” Carozza said. The...

A bill proposed by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, could provide more funding to children placed in foster care because of substance abuse in the family. According to the National Meth Center, Iowa’s...

Education funding shouldn’t be the target of a national push to cut the federal budget, U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, said in Johnson County on Thursday. Loebsack, speaking to a crowd of around 100...

Fasten your seat belt and enjoy the drive … without your cell phone. The distracted-driving bill signed more than a year ago today, banning texting for all drivers, can now be enforced with a fine. At...

Jim White stood in the middle of Taft Speedway on Thursday and gestured toward the row of houses between him and the Iowa River. “I don’t like to see these as houses,” he said. “I see them as...