IOWA CITY — Democrat Royceann Porter will be the newest member of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors after she defeated Republican Phil Hemingway in Tuesday’s special...

CEDAR RAPIDS — A federal judge on Tuesday went above the sentencing guidelines in sending a woman to prison for seven years for stealing money from the elderly mother of her deceased...

DES MOINES — State negotiators Tuesday offered mostly status-quo health insurance and a 1 percent pay increase in each of the next two fiscal years to a public safety unit that is the only...

IOWA CITY — Building a new University of Iowa art museum after its original iteration was badly damaged in flooding a decade ago won’t start until the institution finishes raising at...

CEDAR RAPIDS — State Republican Chairman Jeff Kaufmann isn’t worried about California beginning absentee voting in its 2020 primary election the same day as Iowa’s...

CEDAR RAPIDS — More than half the public transit buses logged by the state are considered beyond their useful life — a measurement of miles on the vehicle, as well as age and...

Decorah-based Toppling Goliath Brewing Co. will begin distributing its beer in Arkansas this week. This will be the 14th state where the beer is sold, the company noted on its Facebook site Tuesday....

By Brian CrecenteLOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - When is a dance a dance and not just a move, and can you copyright it?That seems to be the lynchpin question in a series of lawsuits filed this month...

Authorities have no idea how many deer the Berry family and their associates illegally killed in the fields and forests of southern Missouri over the last decade, but the details of their poaching...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Filmmaker George Lucas’s “Star Wars” empire - the movie franchise, not Darth Vader’s fictional galactic government - planted him firmly atop Forbes...

DES MOINES — Rural Iowa needs more assistance from the state to address housing shortages and limited access to high-speed internet, three state task forces told the governor Tuesday. The...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Tuesday banned the high-power gun attachments of the type used in last year’s Las Vegas shooting massacre of 58 people, giving the owners of...

IOWA CITY — All schools in the Iowa City Community School District were on a soft lockdown Tuesday afternoon, after two schools received “calls of a threatening nature,”...

WASHINGTON— Penny Marshall, who played an endearingly graceless character with a thick Bronx accent in U.S. television’s “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming a...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Maintaining current clean car standards will create jobs in technology and innovation, save Iowans money and protect their health and the environment, speakers opposed to the...

WASHINGTON — In response to a government lawsuit that centers on an Iowa fundraising rally, President Donald Trump has agreed to shut down his personal charity amid allegations he used it for...

Iowa published first-of-its-kind reports Tuesday that reveal how schools performed under the new accountability system that replaced the strict achievement metrics of No Child Left Behind. The...

Mocking lame duck Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for his poor graphing skills misses the point. Most of us learned in school how to pull information into a graph. Included in those lessons, at least by...

Kirsta’s son climbed down from peeking over the top of the fridge, where his cat was hiding, and accepted a plate of fish sticks from his mother. The nine-year-old slathered on sweet-and-sour...

The police were again circling the Franz Bakery Outlet in the spring of 2017, hungry for information, and now she knew why. The shop, a branch of a commercial outfit supplying baked goods to...