Iowa will operate under a $1 billion-plus state budget shortfall for the second consecutive year. Here is what’s in the state’s $9.6 billion spending plan for the coming year.
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The filing period for candidates has closed, debates are underway and the June 2 primary for dozens of Iowa offices is nearly here.
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The Clarinda girls placed third and the boys fourth, combining for three Hawkeye 10 meet championships Thursday
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The Shenandoah track and field teams won a few conference championships in their final Hawkeye 10 Conference meet Thursday
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Hear from the members of the Shenandoah boys tennis team as they look ahead to, what they expect to be, a big finish.
Beat reporters Ben Hutchens and Ethan Petrik discuss the offseason changes for the Hawkeyes and Cyclones and what 4-star Donovan Davis' commitment to ISU means.
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Iowa State needed to replenish a women's basketball roster that lost post players Audi Crooks (Oklahoma State), Addy Brown (UCLA) and Alisa Williams (Indiana).
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The coalition is chaired by Nathan Sage, a Marine and Army veteran who previously ran in the Democratic primary before ending his campaign and endorsing Turek.
More than 1,500 pounds of trash cleared in a single day. Council Bluffs volunteers showed up big for this year’s Clean Sweep.
“I am truly humbled and honored to have the endorsement of my political hero, Senator Tom Harkin," Turek said in the release.
Two top IPERS leaders are out after a misconduct investigation as Gov. Kim Reynolds accepts CEO Greg Samorajski’s resignation and chief benefits officer fired.
Branstad spoke about the values he carried from rural Iowa into public life.
Viva Fit Kitchen has been offering healthy, Latin-inspired meal prep options for Council Bluffs and beyond since 2019, and the business' origins come from its owner's personal health journey.
Some worry the state and nation could be in another farm crisis as producers face a fourth year of losses and new projections show farm income will continue to decline.
Rewards from the cattle business have been numerous for the Bolton family’s Bern-A-Dale Shorthorns seedstock operation in Pottawattamie County.
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The Clarinda girls placed third and the boys fourth, combining for three Hawkeye 10 meet championships Thursday
LEXINGTON, Ky. — What many college basketball adherents have long dreaded is now reality. The NCAA announced Thursday that it is expanding the mens’ and women’s basketball tourneys from their current 68 to 76 teams starting in 2027. In a news release, the NCAA justified the move by saying that the expansion is “creating additional championship participation opportunities for student-athletes ...
Television viewers outside of Georgia didn’t have many reasons to care about the Atlanta Braves in the mid-1970s. The team was terrible and its games were largely unavailable to anyone whose “rabbit ears” antenna couldn’t pick up an Atlanta signal. For Ted Turner, who died Wednesday at 87, this wasn’t a baseball problem. It was a television problem. On April 2, 1977, he solved it by using ...
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