A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021:
DES MOINES — Iowa lawmakers are in discussions — among themselves and with Gov. Kim Reynolds’ office — to determine what, if any, role they wi…
DES MOINES — Members of a Senate committee clashed Thursday over legislation that would delay and reduce government benefits paid to unemploye…
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Kansas man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2018 death of his girlfriend in Iowa.
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday that she’s optimistic vaccinations of Iowans will accelerate due to the impending author…
MOUNT VERNON, Iowa (AP) — An eastern Iowa man has been arrested and charged with livestock neglect resulting in death after authorities found …
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police have arrested an Iowa City landlord, accusing her of breaking into an apartment to try forcibly remove a tenant …
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DES MOINES — A sweeping proposal that would limit early voting in Iowa and make myriad other changes to how elections operate here is on its w…
DES MOINES — Back in December 2019, Debi Durham predicted 2020 would be one of the best years of her decade as chief of the Iowa Economic Deve…
DES MOINES — Changes to state unemployment benefits will be bad for Iowa workers and bad for Iowa, labor union members argued the morning afte…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's Democratic attorney general has installed the Republican governor’s lawyer into a high-level job in which he is …
AMES, Iowa (AP) — An autopsy shows the death last month of a 21-year-old woman outside an Iowa State University sorority house was caused by a…
ATLANTA (AP) — With her children struggling in many classes last spring, Kelli Rivera became so frustrated with how her suburban Atlanta distr…
DES MOINES — The Iowa Senate voted Tuesday to shorten Iowa’s early voting process to 20 days, close statewide election polls an hour earlier, …
DES MOINES — Iowa senators voted 30-18 on Tuesday to approve legislation directing the state Department of Human Services to upgrade its syste…
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed an education funding package that will pump $36.5 million more into Iowa’s K-12 school system.
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed an education funding package that will pump $36.5 million more into Iowa’s K-12 school system.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A man shot by a Cedar Rapids police officer died Tuesday, three days after he was spotted running from a motel after…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republicans in the Iowa Senate approved a bill Tuesday sharply limiting early voting, with some arguing that changes w…
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man who filled in wetlands along the Des Moines River in order to build a recreational vehicle campground has rea…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Iowa man was sentenced on Tuesday for his role in the death of a Nebraska man who was stabbed 20 times.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to confirm Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary, his second run at the Cabinet post.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The FBI has identified an Iowa woman and her adult son as participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol after rec…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The risk of flooding generally remains low across most of Nebraska and Iowa because the snow across both states is expected…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group of 24 scientists, economists, researchers and other winners of the World Food Prize sent a letter Tuesday to P…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — As the Biden administration sets up shop, many policies initiated by its hard-right predecessor are being targeted for…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The seizure of illegal drugs in Nebraska surged last year, according to federal drug agents for the state, and officials wa…
