Johnson County’s Temporary Redistricting Committee is preparing to submit its precinct plan, the first step in the process of changing how county supervisors are elected after a new state law requiring the change was passed by Republicans earlier this year.
The City of Coralville will put a 1 percent local-option sales tax before voters in the November general election. The ballot language was approved this week by the City Council as a way of funding property tax relief and revenue for capital projects like a new recreation center.
State Rep. Josh Turek, who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, said the best thing for Iowans is for lawmakers to “move away from this party over country mentality.”
Grant Harper is the first Marion City Council candidate to formally announce an intent to run in the Nov. 4 city election.
Candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and more are participating in the state’s time-honored tradition of greeting Iowans at the State Fair.
City officials call it a “proactive” move aimed at maximizing future earnings.
Jackie Norris, a Des Moines school board member and former chief of staff to Michelle Obama, becomes the fourth Democrat running in Iowa’s 2026 U.S. Senate election.
Iowa Democratic U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Scholten held a campaign event Monday at a central Iowa farm to highlight his federal agriculture policy proposals.
Speaking at a campaign fundraiser, the Republican AG said her office will ‘get all the way to the bottom’ after an apparently undercover video shows a University of Iowa worker describing how staff is circumventing a new state law that bans DEI
Mike Bousselot, Eddie Andrews and Brad Sherman discussed property rights, abortion, property taxes and more during a nearly 2-hour event
With lawmakers back in their district for their month-long August recess, the question remains when, and if, the former ophthalmologist and 24-year Army veteran will use that time to honor her pledge to hold a public in-person town hall.
Missouri Republican U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt will join national conservative commentator and Republican political strategist Scott Jennings as a featured guest at Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson’s fifth annual “BBQ Bash” campaign fundraiser Aug. 23 in Cedar Rapids. Meanwhile, U.S. Senate candidate Nathan Sage will visit 99 counties in 99 days.
Plus, we discuss the continued messaging battle over the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” and Iowa Republicans taking on Rob Sand.
Christina Bohannan, who is challenging Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa’s First District, visits Washington County Hospital to discuss impacts health spending cuts will have on rural health care systems.
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