First-year Sen. Zach Wahls, who first gained fame after a speech in the Iowa House of Representatives went viral when he was a college student, compared his first year in the chamber as a lawmaker to a...
With ongoing flooding in Iowa increasing the urgency of disaster relief aid from Congress, Iowa senators say a package is still in the negotiating stage.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said she hopes to see...
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price plans to put a lot of miles on his car ahead of the 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses.
“During the last week of the last election cycle, I put 4,000...
A bill in the Iowa Legislature would conflict with a University of Iowa policy that bans stun guns on campus.
The bill in question, Senate File 188, passed in both chambers of the Legislature in April,...
Yotopia owner Veronica Tessler has said in a Facebook post she will withdraw her young candidacy from Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race because she wants to devote time to her business.
Tessler...
Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill creating a children's mental-health system into law on Wednesday, a key piece of Reynolds’ legislative agenda for the 2019 session.
The bill, House File 690, established...
With a steadily rising prison population and recidivism rate in Iowa, Democrats and Republicans in the Iowa Statehouse are at a crossroads over whether criminal-justice reform was adequately addressed...
With the legislative session completed, Gov. Kim Reynolds called the session — her first since being elected as governor in her own right — a win for Iowans despite leaving key legislative-agenda items...
Iowa’s three state universities will likely receive a collective $12 million funding boost as both chambers of the state Legislature have approved a state-appropriations bill following a Tuesday Iowa...
Iowa City business owner and Democratic activist Veronica Tessler is the first to file her candidacy for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District in 2020, federal elections online records show.
Tessler filed...
After Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, announced he wouldn’t run for re-election on April 12, his seat representing Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District will be up in the air in 2020. A range of Iowans have...
Members of Congress and the Iowa Legislature are at political crossroads over how government aid should be dispensed to victims of Midwest flooding and whether the flooding was caused by climate change.
While...
