Alliant Energy is planning to add roughly 1,000 megawatts of wind energy to help boost Iowa’s electric grid and further diversify its energy portfolio. The project — estimated to cost more than $3 billion — would increase the company’s wind energy production by more than 50 percent.
This week on the podcast, we recap President Donald Trump’s visit to Iowa and share updates on Iowa’s 2026 gubernatorial election.
From separate events Thursday, Gov. Kim Reynolds, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, and Tom Vilsack — the former Iowa governor and USDA secretary — all discussed how to manage farm labor amid the hard-line deportation policy of the Trump administration.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday he is committed to investigating the members of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation who served during the Biden administration over indictments against President Donald Trump.
Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday that Iowa officials have contacted the White House to be involved in discussions on how to keep immigrant agricultural workers in the country.
U.S. Department of Agriculture chief Brooke Rollins announced Tuesday that the U.S. government will move to ban sales of farmland nationwide to Chinese buyers and other foreign adversaries, citing threats to national security and food security.
Higher tariffs on nearly all major U.S. trading partners are piling pressure on farmers already struggling with soaring agricultural supply costs and elevated rates.
For some Democratic leaders, the tax break and spending cut package passed by Trump's Republican allies in Congress on Thursday — and signed by Trump on Friday — represents the key to the Democratic Party's resurgence.
On the Fourth of July, Ruby Caceres celebrated the birthday of her new country alongside her husband and son and other family members who also have made their way to the U.S. over the years.
President Donald Trump signed his package of tax breaks and spending cuts into law Friday after his cajoling produced almost unanimous Republican support in Congress for the domestic priority that could cement his second-term legacy.
See photos as President Trump headlined an America 250 event at the State Fairgrounds to kickoff a year of celebration of the United States’ semiquincentenial year.
President Donald Trump in Iowa on Thursday promised to keep the state a central part of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration, celebrated Congressional approval of his sweeping tax and spending legislation, and snuck in a few of his greatest campaign-style rally hits.
Iowa’s U.S. House members — all Republicans — voted Thursday to pass President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill, sending it to him to sign before the Fourth of July holiday weekend and just a few hours before Trump was set to speak in Des Moines at an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
Litigants trade allegations of forum shopping in state and federal court
The tight roll call, 218-214, came at a potentially high political cost, with two Republicans joining all Democrats opposed.
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