Erin Murphy

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson wasted little time announcing her candidacy for U.S. Senate Tuesday, mere hours after Sen. Joni Ernst published a video announcing she will not seek re-election.

Saying it is time to give back to the family that has supported her during her career in public service, Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst in a video message announced Tuesday that she will not seek re-election next year.

Democratic gubernatorial candidates Rob Sand and Julie Stauch both say they would propose significant changes to the state program that provides taxpayer-funded scholarships for K-12 private school tuition.

The Iowa Barn Foundation, for its last year at the State Fair, added a pair of silos to its display in the Agriculture Building. The structures were auctioned off and the money raised will be used to help preserve Iowa barns.

Materials to help local government officials implement a new state law that requires training on Iowa’s open meetings and records laws are on the way from the state board that oversees the laws.

For the first time in two years, the three-person state panel that regulates Iowa’s public utilities held a general, public meeting — and Iowa landowners who are opposed to a hazardous liquid pipeline and have been critical of the panel’s approval of the project did not miss the opportunity.

J.D. Scholten is dropping out of the crowded Democratic primary in Iowa’s U.S. Senate election, and endorsing fellow Democratic state legislator Josh Turek, who just announced his candidacy this past week.

Iowa Democrats’ campaign speeches sound different this year as the party attempts to win back voters they have lost in the state over the past decade.

Donald Trump swooped in from his helicopter. Hillary Clinton saw the butter cow. And Bernie Sanders drew a crowd so large it almost shut down the Grand Concourse. It was 10 years ago today — Aug. 15, 2015 — that Trump, Clinton and Sanders all visited the Iowa State Fair on the same day.

Amid federal budget cuts, the U.S. Energy Secretary on Thursday in Iowa provided assurances that the Ames National Laboratory that he was touring will continue to receive financial support but said wind energy production will need to start standing on its own.

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U.S. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler participated in a small business roundtable discussion hosted by the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and attended by Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson on Monday.

USDA Sec. Brooke Rollins, in Iowa, said Saturday that the agency is shifting some of its workforce away from Washington, D.C.

Candidates for governor, U.S. Senate and more are participating in the state’s time-honored tradition of greeting Iowans at the State Fair.

Kevin Kincaid, the CEO of Knoxville Hospitals and Clinics, hosted a roundtable discussion with Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Director Kelly Garcia on Wednesday to discuss how hospitals can work with government partners to minimize that impact of new federal reductions in Medicaid spending.