Iowa City area lawmakers pin child care costs, a cellphone ban in classrooms, and education funding as a few of their priorities for the 2025 legislative session.
As Republicans hold a supermajority...
Cody Blissett, Managing Visuals Editor
• January 15, 2025
Lawmakers gathered Tuesday morning at the Iowa State Capitol in the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives to convene shortly before holding a handful of introductory committee meetings throughout...
DES MOINES — Amid a national and statewide shortage of physicians, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds proposed rural and maternal healthcare expansions as top priorities for the 2025 legislative session. In...
DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds called to ban phones in classrooms, continue her work making government more efficient, and continue her reform of Iowa’s education system during her annual...
Liam Halawith, National Politics Editor
• January 15, 2025
DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds proposed the state use a portion of its cash reserves to pay for her $9.4 billion state budget proposal announced on Tuesday.
The governor’s budget is more...
Cody Blissett, Managing Visuals Editor
• January 13, 2025
Lawmakers gathered for the first day of the 2025 Iowa legislative session at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Monday. Property taxes, education, immigration, and child care were discussed as high...
DES MOINES — Iowa lawmakers gaveled in the 2025 legislative session on Monday with Republicans holding a supermajority and a trifecta. Republican legislative leaders are looking to pin property tax...
President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register for a poll released three days before the election showing Vice President Kamala Harris...
The week before the 2024 election, Iowa Democrats were cautiously optimistic. Polling showed the party could stem their previous losses in the state and maybe even gain on Republican control.
Democrats...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds named Iowa State Sen. Chris Cournoyer, R-Le Claire, as her next lieutenant governor on Monday, more than 3 months after Adam Gregg resigned from the position.
Reynolds's...
Iowa’s revenues are expected to decrease by hundreds of millions of dollars in the next two fiscal years due to accelerated tax cuts passed by state legislators in the 2024 legislative session.
The...
Former U.S. Rep. James Leach, a Republican who represented southeast Iowa in Congress for 30 years, died at 82 on Wednesday.
Leach, who was born in Davenport, was first elected to represent southeast...
