With two Iowa House seats in Johnson County seeing primary challengers, including one held by Iowa City Democrat Elinor Levin, and three Johnson County Democrats running unopposed — the countdown...
Candice and Kenneth Meisgeier, who call the northeastern Iowa city of Oelwein home, know the state’s mental health care system like the back of their hand, with three of their four children having...
After a lengthy heated floor debate, the Iowa Senate passed a heavily amended version of House Republicans' reforms on Iowa’s nine Area Education Agencies.
Reforming AEAs is the biggest task...
Iowa Senate lawmakers killed several Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and House Republicans legislative priorities this week after failing to advance a slew of bills past a critical deadline on Friday.
Reynolds’...
Iowa retailers would be prohibited from selling consumable hemp products with more than four milligrams of THC, the intoxicating ingredient in cannabis, per serving and 10 milligrams per container...
Iowa’s federal delegation was critical of Democratic President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border following his annual State of the Union address in front of a joint session of Congress...
Iowans could now see jail time for human “smuggling,” a new crime created under a bill passed on Thursday by Iowa House Republicans.
The bill, House File 2608, would make it a class “C”...
Iowans could face more jail time for ending a pregnancy without consent under a bill passed on Thursday by Iowa House Republicans. Democrats caution the bill could affect in vitro fertilization treatments.
The...
A bipartisan bill that would raise teacher pay and extend the deadline for Iowa school districts to submit their budgets to the state passed in the Iowa House Thursday.
House File 2630 would increase...
A bill to allow felons to run for federal office passed the Iowa House on Tuesday.
The bill would carve out an exception in Iowa law for former President Donald Trump, who currently faces 91 felony...
A new edition of The Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll found that the majority of Iowans support Iowa’s Area Education Agencies.
The poll comes as House lawmakers passed their proposal Thursday...
After killing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' plan to reform Iowa’s nine Area Education Agencies earlier this session, Iowa House Republicans passed a House vote Thursday afternoon.
The bill, House...
