Iowa News

An April trial is scheduled for a central Iowa woman accused of killing her newborn twin daughters and hiding their bodies in the trunk of her car.

Iowa Department of Transportation officials are asking for the public's input on a proposed passenger rail line from Chicago, through Iowa, to Omaha.

A five-member Iowa House panel has unanimously approved a plan to increase the state's fuel tax by 8 cents a gallon.

A mother is hoping that whoever has the negatives and photos of her two children will return them to the Des Moines photo shop that misplaced them.

On Friday, I posted about a "Gay is Not Okay" marquee put up in front of Rev. Michael Demastus' Church of Christ in Des Moines.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Hank Bundy, a service technician, and Tom Luttenegger, a tire technician at Eastern Iowa Tire, stand Wednesday next to the company's 24-hour road service truck.

China is half a world away from the 2,300-acre family farm in east-central Iowa where John Weber and his son plant corn and soybeans.

Iowa has one of the highest commercial property taxes in the nation and it's one of the issues lawmakers have been grappling with since the last session.

From the power centers of Washington to a soybean farm in Iowa and on to sunny Southern California, China's Vice President Xi Jinping will sample diverse slices of America during a major visit this week.

A.J. Spiker has been elected the new chairman of the Iowa Republican Party. Spiker, a former Story County GOP chairman, was elected Saturday by the Iowa GOP's Central Committee.

Steam rises from cooling towers at the FPL Duane Arnold Energy Center beside the Cedar River in this aerial image taken over Palo on Friday, Nov.

For a year and a half , Iowa engineer James Norton has been tinkering with a plow to help Ugandan farmers.

Low- and moderate-income Iowans can have their tax returns prepared for free by trained and IRS-certified volunteers at nearly 150 sites across Iowa.

Let's get ready to celebrate! We can start thinking of spring, warmer weather, the countryside turning green and probably a great deal of litter and trash on the roadsides and the landscape.

A.J. Spiker was elected to serve out the remaining portion of departing chairman Matt Strawn, whose term is up in 2013.

A 33-year-old Iowa man who photographed his sexual abuse of a child was sentenced Friday to more than 27 years in federal prison.

A Columbus Junction man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for drug convictions.

The measure would let police attach a device to a suspect's car that uses global positioning system technology to track its movement if a judge approves a warrant.

An Iowa woman charged with threatening to release damaging photographs of a cast member of the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting" if she wasn't paid $10,000 is expected to appear in court.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency mistakenly paid 180 Iowans more than $229,000 dollars in disaster relief during the 2010 floods.