The fatal shooting of a Linn County man by law enforcement officers during a traffic stop near Cascade in Dubuque County last month was justified, according to a report issued Friday by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.
Speaking at a campaign fundraiser, the Republican AG said her office will ‘get all the way to the bottom’ after an apparently undercover video shows a University of Iowa worker describing how staff is circumventing a new state law that bans DEI
Also, Attorney General urges Iowans to watch out for ticket scams ahead of Iowa State Fair
Also in the notebook, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird objects to a settlement in a lawsuit against the retail brokerage Charles Schwab
The judge’s order on Iowa’s new pharmacy benefit managers regulations, which partially halts its implementation, applies only to plaintiff businesses, their workers and health care agents.
Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird will not run for governor in 2026. Bird said on social meida she plans to run a "fierce re-election campaign" for attorney general and still has “more work to do.”
The charges are the first after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in March claimed 277 Iowans without U.S. citizenship illegally voted or registered to vote in recent elections.
A federal judge in Iowa has blocked key parts of a Biden administration rule mandating minimum staffing levels in nursing homes across the country. The ruling comes after Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird co-led a multi-state lawsuit, joined by 19 other states trying to block the law.
Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird joined 25 other GOP state attorneys general Tuesday in supporting President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Los Angeles to quell violent unrest against Trump’s mass deportation policies.
In other campaign news, Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Randy Feenstra said his campaign has raised more than $3.2 million.
After three years of failures, Iowa lawmakers late Wednesday reached an agreement on how to spend tens of millions of dollars that have been sitting idle in a state account, waiting to be used for the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction.
Winneshiek County Sheriff Dan Marx is asking a judge to dismiss an Iowa Attorney General Office’s petition against him for not cooperating with federal authorities to enforce immigration laws because his Facebook post that sparked the dispute has been removed -- so there’s no “ongoing violation.”.
Nate Willems, from Anamosa and now living in Mount Vernon, served in the Iowa House for two terms from 2008 to 2012 and works for Rush & Nicholson PLC in Cedar Rapids.
Also in the Capitol Notebook: Iowa House amends, sends prenatal education requirement back to the Iowa Senate
Iowa’s top prosecutor is adding a new feature in the hopes of flushing out suspects and bringing useful tips to dormant investigations.
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