Government & Politics

The federal government’s most recent assessment of health-facility inspections indicates Iowa has failed to meet three key standards.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years, aiming to provide economic stability for older Americans. Today, the program supports nearly 69 million people monthly but faces significant challenges.

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.

According to a report presented to the Johnson County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee this week, a joint law enforcement facility shared by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and the Iowa City Police Department could cost around $106 million.

A state-licensed pharmacy in Washington, Iowa that has been sued by business partners for millions of dollars is now being sanctioned by the state for distributing counterfeit Ozempic.

Also in the notebook, Iowa’s unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent in July

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.