Mark Moran - Public News Service

The period for public comment on Iowa's impaired waterways report closes this week.

AARP Nebraska is hosting a series of events across the state to stem the growing fraud rate.

A pair of Iowa congressional races in this year's midterm elections could determine who controls the U.S. House.

A key health committee in the Iowa Legislature has defeated a measure that would have increased the state’s tobacco and e-cigarette taxes.

Environmental scientists are pushing back on an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, requiring farmers to use the herbicide glyphosate to protect the nation's food supply.

The Iowa Legislature faces a deadline this week on a series of bills that seek to clean up the state's rivers and streams.

A bill now in the Iowa Legislature would allow community colleges to offer four-year bachelor's degree programs. Private colleges are opposed to the measure, saying such a move amounts to taxpayer-funded competition.

Iowans have elected the first Black woman to the state Senate. Republicans were hoping to regain a supermajority in the Senate after the death of a veteran lawmaker.

After a record-long, 43-day shutdown, the federal government is slowly coming back online. But workers in Iowa will slowly return to their jobs. Iowa AFL-CIO President Charlie Wishman said many government employees in Iowa have been going without timely paychecks.