Erin Murphy

Friday is the 110th calendar day of the 2025 session of the Iowa Legislature. It is the last day that state lawmakers will receive their stipend for daily housing and meal expenses. While their work is nearing completion, here are some of the important tasks that remain.

The former U.S. ag secretary and Iowa governor spoke to farmers at an event hosted by the Iowa Democratic Party in Indianola.

Legislation designed to constrain prescription drug costs and protect rural pharmacies by regulating third-party health care companies known as pharmacy benefit managers is once again moving in the Iowa Capitol.

Michael Wagler spent more than two decades with the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Main Street Iowa program before taking AARP Iowa’s lead post

Energy companies with infrastructure in Iowa would have the first opportunity to build new electric transmission lines, and nuclear growth would be encouraged under legislation proposed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds. But how would the legislation impact Iowans’ energy bills? On that, there is much disagreement.

The proposal, which would abolish a board formed in Cedar Rapids after Black Lives Matter protests, needs only Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signature to become law.

Iowa Judicial Branch officials testified in a two-hour Iowa House Oversight Committee hearing on $27.5 million in misdirected court fees.

For a third consecutive year, Iowa lawmakers are trying to agree on legislation that would determine how more than $50 million in opioid settlement funds to the state should be spent.

Firefighters and family members of firefighters who died from cancer have spent multiple years advocating for the coverage beyond the 14 current forms of cancer now covered.

Democrats announced Tuesday they are investing in elections in an attempt to oust Iowa Republicans Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson and Zach Nunn

And how many bills did Republican leaders tuck in their pocket to potentially resurrect in the session’s closing weeks?

The public task force is charged with making government efficiency recommendations to Gov. Kim Reynolds and state lawmakers later this year.

A bill dealing with property rights, eminent domain and pipelines advanced through an Iowa Senate committee for the first time in four years, but an amendment dramatically altered the proposal

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday responded to a federal justice department letter that expressed concern with a right of first refusal provision in her state energy policy proposal.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposed energy legislation includes a right of first refusal to incumbent energy companies to build new transmission projects