Government & Politics

Iowa collected a record amount last month on sports betting with the kickoff of the football season, despite fewer bets being placed compared to a year go.

In the June primaries Steven Bradley beat out Lee Hein for the District 66 Republican candidacy. Now, in the final election, Bradley is facing Democrat Tony Amsler.

Campaigning alongside a slate of Iowa Republicans on Friday on a Dallas County farm, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took a long view of the 2022 election.

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson criticized President Joe Biden's decision to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve instead of ramping up domestic energy production to tame gas prices.

Cedar Rapids plans to eliminate a rule requiring that five of the nine-member Citizen Review Board identify as people of color after a federal judge blocked enforcement of this policy pending the outcome of a lawsuit alleging the rule is racially discriminatory.

A notice of appeal to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was filed late Thursday, hours after U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey in St. Louis ruled that the states of Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina failed to establish standing to bring the suit.

After nearly 40 years as the chief legal official in Iowa, Democrat Tom Miller is in what may be the most competitive election of his career as he faces a challenge from Republican Brenna Bird.

Daryl Ingram, of Mapleton, claimed his $1 million prize in the Iowa Lottery on Thursday, becoming the fifth million-dollar lottery winner in Iowa this year.