Iowa News

Authorities said Tuesday that an electrical malfunction caused the blaze that killed 65-year-old Karen Beecher early Sunday.

It is harvest season in Iowa. For Republicans who want to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, though, it is time to start planting seeds.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved two candidates to become Iowa's top federal prosecutors.

Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley has dropped out of the race for governor, saying he'll focus on electing Republicans to the Legislature.

Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . A garage roof rests against a home on C Street SW on June 16, 2008, after floodwaters began receding across the city.

The Defense Department has announced that 300 soldiers of a U.S. Army Reserve unit based in Des Moines have been alerted for duty in Iraq next spring.

Chanting "Kill the bill," thousands of conservatives incensed over the Democrats' health care overhaul protested at the Capitol on Thursday, arguing that the legislation amounts to a government takeover of the nation's medical system.

The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting the first death of a child linked to H1N1.

A jury has found an Iowa woman guilty of killing her 2-year-old son and seriously injuring his older brother when she slit the boys' throats before cutting her own neck last year.Michelle Kehoe's hands trembled and she wiped tears from her face as District Court Judge Bruce Zager read the verdict on Thursday.Kehoe, of Coralville, faces a mandatory ...

The University of Iowa is halting plans to ask University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics outpatients to sign a consent form at check-in so the UI Foundation can contact them about donations, school officials announced Tuesday.

After holding hearings throughout Iowa about medical uses of marijuana, pharmacy regulators will consider whether to recommend that legislators change the state's laws dealing with the drug.

A growing number of states are moving to allow higher alcohol content in beer, despite concerns from some substance-abuse experts.

Officials in Muscatine County have taken a 51-year-old Mechanicsville woman into custody on charges that she attempted to extort funds from a conservative anti-tax group.

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller says the states should continue to have a role in protecting consumers from fraudulent practices.

The Iowa Department of Public Health has reported four additional 2009 H1N1influenza-related deaths in Iowa.

An investigation is under way into a fire that destroyed a concrete plant in Lake View in western Iowa.

The Iowa attorney general's office is examining all of the roughly $32 million in tax credits awarded through a program designed to lure filmmakers to the state, a top official in the agency said Tuesday.

$11,000 in prize money is on the line for several of the worlda TMs best arenacross racers as they compete for bragging rights in a sneak peek of what lies ahead for the upcoming year.

The first child in Iowa has died of the H1N1 flu virus. The Iowa Department of Public Health said Tuesday that the child died in October and was from eastern Iowa.

Gov. Chet Culver is airing a new television commercial touting his approach to flood recovery and budget problems.