Government & Politics

Kris Karberg, warden of the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility, resigned earlier this month, just six months after starting the job.

"It’s never a 'terrible thing' to protect innocent life," the Iowa governor posted on social media.

The City of Cedar Rapids is moving forward with the process of selecting a new police chief after being without a permanent chief for five months. Assistant to the City Manager Amanda Grieder said in a meeting Monday that the city hopes to have the job opening posted by the end of the week.

Thousands of Iowa families will receive $120 in food assistance to cover the past summer months as part of the Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer federal program.

Also, filing deadline this week for local candidates to get on November ballot

Iowa College Aid commissioners are asking to take on more of a role in the search for a new executive director after the former director resigned in August.

Three of Iowa's four congressional seats — which Democrats held as recently as 2020 — are still winnable, Iowa Democrats say, but the party doesn’t have candidates for two of them thus far.

Ten Republican presidential candidates spoke about faith, abortion, religious freedom and other topics in front of more than 1,000 evangelical voters in Iowa