Erin Murphy

DES MOINES – The midterm elections provided plenty of political news for 2018 in Iowa. But not all the top …

As many lawmakers do toward the end of the year, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, last week pointed to a …

DES MOINES – Judges in Iowa’s courtrooms are chosen by a system widely praised as one that curtails the role …

DES MOINES – An Iowa judge plans to say soon whether he will dismiss a lawsuit that asks a county …

DES MOINES – The woman who said Sen. Nate Boulton sexually harassed her in 2015 said she understands why a …

DES MOINES – Former Iowa Democratic Gov. Tom Vilsack is not thinking about running for the U.S. Senate, he said …

DES MOINES – To Linn County grain farmer Curt Zingula, a newly written federal rule on clean water brings more …

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is about to leave the Senate Judiciary Committee with a bang. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, …

Iowa’s state budget is better prepared than most to handle a recession, according to a recent analysis by the Pew …

DES MOINES – Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has a date this week with the Iowa Supreme Court. The law …

DES MOINES – Seeking ‘structure” and consistency,” the state’s largest public employee union on Thursday proposed a new two-year contract …

DES MOINES – Kind, thoughtful and a strong leader with serious foreign policy chops: that is how Iowans who knew …

Folks who live along the Mississippi River in Iowa, Illinois and southern Wisconsin have a serious independent voting streak. That …

Iowa Republicans earned two more years of complete control of the state lawmaking process earlier this month. How they take …

DES MOINES – Firefighters’ ever-expanding job duties are making it more difficult for some departments to recruit employees and retain …