Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent in February, Iowa Workforce Development said Friday. While the number of unemployed Iowans increased from 58,000 in January...

IOWA CITY — After condemning the Iowa City Council last week for their plans to temporarily suspend the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Raneem Hamad has resigned from the...

Why change? Why now? The Iowa Hawkeyes’ identity is this — a women’s basketball team that scores a ton, and gives up nearly as much. They rank No. 2 in the nation in scoring,...

Iowa Republicans in Congress last week voted against two important immigration reform bills. They said the country needs to bolster legal immigration, not give a pass to illegal...

SIOUX CITY — State Sen. Jim Carlin began his transition to a staunch political conservative after going through a religious awakening in the 1980s. Raised in an Irish-Catholic family in the...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The night Tyler S. Lee drove the wrong way on Interstate 380, crashing into northbound sport utility vehicle, his blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit, according to a...

DES MOINES — The Iowa House approved a sweeping education policy bill Thursday that, if it becomes law, could have a $12 million impact and delay state income tax cuts previously adopted by...

DES MOINES — Democratic state lawmakers joined a national gun safety advocacy organization Thursday in calling on Gov. Kim Reynolds to veto legislation that would eliminate a requirement that...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids woman admitted to police that she slapped, scratched, bit and used a hammer, extension cord and a remote to hit a 15-year-old girl in 2019, but she blamed the...

The following is a roundup of Iowa news from the past seven days.Prison staffers killed Two inmates used prison hammers to kill a nurse and a correctional officer in a failed attempt to escape from...

Sen. Joni Ernst and Rep. Ashley Hinson are teaming up to increase the availability of federal funds for child care development. Ernst on Thursday introduced the ACCESS Act — Affordable Child...

Iowa Republicans continued a GOP-pressure campaign Thursday, casting a U.S. House review of a contested congressional election in Iowa’s 2nd District as a partisan power grab to pad...

Cedar Rapids resident Zach Douglas was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer when he was 38 years old. Though uncommon, his case is part of a trend that’s becoming more and more common across...

DES MOINES — Senate Republicans pressed ahead Thursday with a plan for the state to take over the cost of mental-health services now covered by property taxes, as Democrats questioned the...

IOWA CITY — Iowa City firefighters rescued someone who fell down a maintenance hatch at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Thursday morning. According to a fire department press...

MARION — Seth Staashelm became Marion’s interim parks and recreation director Aug. 1, just nine days before the city was walloped by forceful winds as a derecho swept through Linn...

IOWA CITY — As with many other businesses, Oasis Falafel has seen a dip in business during coronavirus. Yet co-owner Ofer Sivan said its hummus has been popular enough for it to be a dip in...

Three years after its founding, Rantizo has outgrown its current Iowa City location. Rantizo, an agricultural drone-spraying company, is moving from its 105 Iowa Ave. office to a new facility close...

The number of fully vaccinated Iowans exceeded 500,000 as of Thursday. Earlier in the week, the number of people who have been fully vaccinated within the state, which includes non-Iowa residents,...

Six Cedar Rapids office buildings formerly occupied by Transamerica are for sale, Coldwell Banker Hedges Realty said Thursday. The six buildings — on two campuses — are located at 4333...