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Iowa's primary elections are June 2. When is voter registration?

Iowa's primary elections are June 2. When is voter registration?

  • Cooper Worth Des Moines Register

The filing period for candidates has closed, debates are underway and the June 2 primary for dozens of Iowa offices is nearly here.

Clarinda boys set 2 records, Bird, relays lead girls to 3rd at Hawkeye 10 Track

Clarinda boys set 2 records, Bird, relays lead girls to 3rd at Hawkeye 10 Track

  • Bryan Clark

The Clarinda girls placed third and the boys fourth, combining for three Hawkeye 10 meet championships Thursday

Event championships from Hennings, Graham lead Shenandoah at Hawkeye 10 Track

Event championships from Hennings, Graham lead Shenandoah at Hawkeye 10 Track

  • Bryan Clark Sports Editor

The Shenandoah track and field teams won a few conference championships in their final Hawkeye 10 Conference meet Thursday

Shenandoah Tennis enjoying dream season, bigger goals ahead

Shenandoah Tennis enjoying dream season, bigger goals ahead

  • Bryan Clark

Hear from the members of the Shenandoah boys tennis team as they look ahead to, what they expect to be, a big finish.

CyHawk Talk: How to feel about transfer portal additions and Iowa State recruiting win vs Iowa, Wisconsin

CyHawk Talk: How to feel about transfer portal additions and Iowa State recruiting win vs Iowa, Wisconsin

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. 

Iowa State women's basketball adds Slovenian center Tjasa Turnsek

Iowa State women's basketball adds Slovenian center Tjasa Turnsek

  • ben.hutchens

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).

Sidney Girls Golf makes up half of Corner Conference's all-conference team

Sidney Girls Golf makes up half of Corner Conference's all-conference team

  • Bryan Clark

The Corner Conference released its all-conference golf teams Wednesday, May 6, at the conclusion of the Corner Conference Golf Tournament.

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Vice President JD Vance rallies support in Iowa for Zach Nunn, Trump trade policies

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Zach Wahls and Josh Turek spar on outside spending, Schumer, immigration and electability in debate ahead of the Iowa U.S. Senate Democratic primary.

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Adam Minter: Ted Turner’s blueprint can still save leagues from themselves

Adam Minter: Ted Turner’s blueprint can still save leagues from themselves

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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