Roxy Ekberg, Politics Reporter
• February 12, 2024
Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill that would allow teachers to be armed on school grounds after a panel of Iowa lawmakers heard testimony on the bill on Monday.
House Study Bill 675 addresses school...
A panel of Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would allow the legal sale of over-the-counter birth control.
The bill, House Study Bill 642, was introduced by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to prevent...
Roxy Ekberg, Politics Reporter
• February 12, 2024
Iowa lawmakers advanced a bill Monday to alter diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements at Iowa Board of Regents-controlled universities.
House File 2327, introduced last week, would codify...
Iowa House Democrats introduced a bill Monday that would prohibit tuition increases during Iowa residents’ first four years at an Iowa public university to address the rising cost of obtaining a...
Iowa lawmakers quickly advanced Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’s bill to legally define “men” and “women” in Iowa law on Tuesday.
The bill faced heavy opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ+ rights advocates...
Iowa lawmakers proposed a bill to cap tuition raises at a 3 percent increase for students at Iowa’s three regent-controlled universities pursuing an undergraduate degree.
The bill would also prohibit...
Iowa Rep. Heather Hora, R-Washington, announced her bid for reelection on Tuesday.
If reelected, it would be Hora’s second term representing Iowa House District 92, which includes all of Washington...
Democratic Congressional Candidate Christina Bohannan hosted a roundtable with University of Iowa medical students on Monday night where she discussed her support of access to abortion services and...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to expand Medicaid coverage for mothers and newborns gathered mixed responses from maternal health care advocates during a panel on the bill Monday.
Senate Study...
Bill Northey, the former Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died on Monday. He was 64.
Northey served as Iowa's...
A panel of Iowa House Lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would prohibit disciplinary action against teachers for not using a student's preferred name or pronouns.
House File 2139 would prohibit school...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced another plan Monday to send another round of Iowa National Guard members to the southwest U.S.-Mexico border to assist in taming a record number of border crossings.
Spending...
